BURGLARY IN WELLINGTON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21980, 15 June 1933, Page 8

BURGLARY IN WELLINGTON

QUANTITY OF JEWELLERY STOLEN TWO MEN PLEAD GUILTY i (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 14. The story of how a dwelling house in Evans Bay road was entered on the King’s Birthday and a quantity of jewellery stolen was related to Mr E. Page, S.M., in the Police Court to-day when William George John Durning, a labourer, aged 22, and James Lawrence Jamieson Tait, a labourer, aged 23, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the premises and stealing jewellery. Richard Edward Metz, manager of the Lambton quay branch of R. Hannah ani and Co., said he left his residence, leaving all the doors and windows, with the exception of a fanlight, securely locked. Upon returning he found the back door open and the house ransacked. Among the articles missing was about £2O worth of jewellery. Detective Campin said the jewellery was that which he had found on June 7. He went with Durning to a house in Aro street, where he dug up from the garden a bundle containing the articles of jewellery. At the detective office Duming made a statement to the effect that he and Tait had brokeh into Metz’s house and had taken certain jewellery. They had later sold some to gold buyers. When interviewed Tait also admitted the burglary. Detective Campin said there were still certain articles missing, and from his interviews with the two men he thought Durning had taken them. Both the accused pleaded guilty and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was refused.