WAHINE MAIL ROBBERY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 35

WAHINE MAIL ROBBERY.

FURTHER CHARGE PREFERRED.

BREAKING AND ENTERING •< ALLEGED.

WELLINGTON. February 26. The four men arrested last weekin connection with the mail robbery on the Wahine —Thomas Gordon. Richard Ryan, George Wilfred Ryan, and Arthur Henry William Bevan—appeared again in court this morning, each charged with another offence. The two Ryans and Gordon were charged with having, on or about January 11, broken and entered by night the shop of Robert Young Shearer (Lower Hutt}, and stolen wearing apparel of a total value of about £9O. Bevan was charged that between January 22 and February 3 he received from Gordon goods valued at £ll 6s 6d, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained.

All were remanded till to-morrow, the date to which the previous charges were remanded. Bevan alone was allowed bail.

When conusel asked for bail for Richard Ryan, who. he said, was not concerned with breaking into the shop, and would be able to establish a defence, the chief detective said that when the four men were admitted to bail last week the facts in the other charges were not known. The shop in Lower Hutt had not only been broken into and goods stolen, but had been set fire to. damage to the extent of £1750 having been done.