A SERIES OF BURGLARIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3803, 1 February 1927, Page 5

A SERIES OF BURGLARIES.

THREAT WITH REVOLVER. 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 to-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 Young pleaded guilty to six further charges of a similar nature.. He was also charged with robbing a Hindu when armed with a revolver. , - ■■■ In referring to the latter incident, -Young said he went into Nath a Patul’s fruit shop in' - Jervois -road, Ponsonby, where She 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 little ,£4 in .silver,” said Young, .