COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20969, 7 March 1930, Page 10

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

ALLEGED THEFT OF SOVEREIGNS. (Peb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 6. John Charls Turvey, alias Davis A, Cook, aged 26, pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to a charge of stealing 80 sovereigns, the property of Eraelis Pippoe. Turvey was further charged with receiving 64 sovereigns, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. Detective M'Lellan said that after the accused had arrived back from Australia, escorted by Constable Adams, he interviewed him at _ the police station. The accused told him that ho was pleading guilty-to the theft. • The accused said that fie had stolen the sovereigns and had changed them for Australian notes at a Wellington bank, and that the £56 in Australian notes found in his possession were the no tee he had received at the bank in exchange for the gold. The accused said he had only 64 sovereigns, not 80. Witness told him that 80 were stolen, and the accused replied: “I’m pleading guilty, and I don’t want to get anyone else into trouble.” The accused, continued witness, said he had arrived from Sydney as a stowaway on February 4, and on his arrival he had had no money. He was committeed to the Supreme Court for trial.