PAGES IN CRIME.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4538, 23 May 1913, Page 5

PAGES IN CRIME.

FOOLS AND THEIR MONEY. CASE WHERE THEY PARTED. Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. . (Received This Day at 9.55 a.m.) London, This Day. Arthur Newton and Berkeley Bennett., charged with defrauding Joans Thosch of £23,000, were committed for trial. Newton was further cuarged with misappropriating £3OO in connection with MaokJfy’s fine on January 13th , [ln the case against Newton and Bennett, Thorscli, the com pin in a lit, gave evidence that lie was induced to invest £14,000 in the -Manchurian Concessions, Limited, for which h© did not receive any return. Subsequently Newton and others persuaded him to invest £IO,OOO in alleged bogus land and timber concessions in Uanada.]

MURDERED SERVANT uUk (Received This Day at 10.10 a.m.) London, This Day. Burton, the gamekeeper, has been committed for trial on a charge, ot murdering the servant girl .vJitcliell. Letters were found in th© girl’s effects ii, Burton’s handwriting couched in affectionate language. A witness stated that Burton admitted that he intended to elope with the girl to Canada. _ . [A cable message on the sth inst. stated that the body of a farm servant named Winifred M itch ell was found buried in n shallow grave at Ous-age, Wimborne, Dorsetshire. Boys saw an open grave on March .40, and on the following day Mitchell disappeared, saying she wa.s going to Canada. No si-a roll for the missing girl was made until her false teeth were found in a wood a fortnight later. A search then revealed the grave filled in, and in it the body of Mitchell, fully dressed. She had been shot in tho head. William Barton, tlie gamekeeper ,a married man, was detained on suspicion.)

A YOUNG MAN’S STORY

Auckland. Las tNight

Charles Windle aged twenty-five years, came before Mr E ( Cutte®, S.M., this morning for 'entence on charges of having stolen six bicycles and a watch and chain. Counsel said that Windle was only a hoy in years, and he had a wife a year younger than himself, and a child horn in March. He had been in asmall business as a. chemist in England, but his health broke down and he was ordered away for his health, with the result that he tame to New Zealand twelve months ago with his wife. He had worked as a chemist’s assistant and later in a jeweller’s -hop. but the wages were onlv £2 a week He endeavoured to get better work, hut that resulted in his getting out of work altogther, and he and his wife were cm the point of staravtion. He concealed frm his wife that he was unemployed, and in order to get money for food he entered on a series of thefts, selling the stolen goods. It was a case of desperation caused by hunger. His Worship said he thought there was little doubt accused did not fully recognise his responsibilities, and in other cireuinstances he would have been given a term of years of reformative treatment. Tt. was impossible that he should not be punished at all. and he would he sentenced to two months’ hard labour.

LEFT HTS FINGER PRINTS. Auckland, This Day. Mr F. ('. Sharpies, residing at No. 1 Reresford street discovered a burglar ou his premises last night. He fired his revolver and the bullet entered the wall ahout two feet from the man, who bolted down the passage and escaped by a window. As the man clambered out he smashed the window glass and ealled out, a pjim rently warning an accomplice outside. Sharpies saw two mini decamping. The intruder left finger prints which are now in the possession of the police.