A SERIES OF BURGLARIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20006, 25 January 1927, Page 10

A SERIES OF BURGLARIES.

THREAT WITH REVOLVER.. A HINDU ROBBED. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, January 24. Details concerning a series of burglaries in the shops of Europeans and Chinese in the suburbs of Auckland were contained in a statement made by accused and presented in the police court ‘o-day. when William Gibson Young and Leonard David Williams, two young men, who pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against them, were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Two charges of breaking and entering and theft were brought against the pair, and Xoung pleaded guilty to six further charges o a similar nature. He was also charged with robbing a Hindu when armed with a to the latter incident, Young said he went into Natha Patul s fruit -hop in Jervois -road. Ponsonby where he covered his face with a handkerchief and presented a toy revolver at a Hindu, telling him to put his hands up and to hand over his money. “He handed me a htt over £4 in silver,” said Young.