BURGLARY CHARGES
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD OFFENCES (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 27. Fourteen charges of breaking and entering houses in Auckland and stealing goods of a total value of £341 were admitted in the Police Court to-day before Mr W. R. M'Kcan, S.M., by Harris O’Neill, aged 32, described as a chemist. Arrested at Auckland on February 18, 1926, on a charge of stealing £2O, he was admitted to bail on the following day but absconded. In spite of the efforts of the police, which were redoubled more recently on accouut of suspicions iu connection with many recent thefts, he could not be traced until April 11, when ho was re-arrested. In addition to pleading guilty to the breaking and entering charges O’Neill admitted the theft of £2O on February 18, 1926. He did not plead on charges of stealing a motor cycle and sidechair valued at £IOO at Hamilton on January 8, 1926, and of breaking and entering a house in Wellington on January 27,1933. The accused pleaded guilty after the hearing of each individual charge and had no comments to make. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on the local charges and was remanded to appear in Wellington on May 6 on the Wellington charge. “I believe a large number of charges is awaiting him in the south,” said Detective Sergeant M‘Hugh.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21939, 28 April 1933, Page 10
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