COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26933, 19 November 1948, Page 3

COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE

BREAKING AND ENTERING AND THEFT Pleading guilty to a charge of breaking and entering the Dunedin Training College on October 23 and stealing a typewriter, Robert Watson Lowther, aged '23, a labourer, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence by Mr J. D. Willis, S.M., in the City Police Court yesterday. Lowther was represented by Mr W. McAlevey. Agnes Mayer, a typist employed by the Otago Education Board, gave evidence of finding the typewriter missing on her return to the college office after Labour week-end. She identified the stolen machine on its production by the prosecutor, Chief Detective Hall. Witness estimated the value of the machine at about £45. Evidence was also given by Charles Beeby. caretaker at the Training College, and Acting Detective Bell, who produced a statement in which the defendant had admitted his offence to the police at Timaru. Remand Granted Edward Roydon Marshall, a casual labourer, aged 35, was charged with breaking and entering the premises of Frank Restieaux, at 20 Rattray street, on September 17. He was remanded until November 25 on the application of Chief Detective Hall.