EXTENSIVE THEFTS,

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16021, 6 January 1923, Page 6

EXTENSIVE THEFTS,

TWO YOUTHS ADMIT OFFENCEIS.

? I A tale of youthful enterprise, direct- j •j£ ed in tli© wrong channels,, was brought ? to light at a .sitting of the Wairoa S Court yesterday, when two youths ap- ? peared pn remand from Gisborne to anil s>rer a series of charges of theft. £ Mesrs. Geo. Britnell and W. Fos.fcer 5 Shaw, J,'sl\, presided. S' Tho youths wefte Frederick George fj lister and Walter Re!d Hill, who were % jointly charged that on December 16. 5 1922, at Napier, they did steal a tent, 5 .valued at £2, the property of Erie %'Caio; that on December lsth, at Wai- % von, tliey did break and enter jho preS ' mis.es of the Wairoa Butter Factory and % steal therefrom 8811)s, of butter, ■'! pair i ! of gumboots, an oilskin, and. two suit.* i : of overalls, valued at £lO 6» Bd, tli© S'pjopevty of the Wairoa Butter FacJjtory; that they ■did on the same, day % j steid one horse, valued at £lO, the 5 I property of Matthew Edwards,; two gig % Jflmps and n cushion, valued at £2, the Z'< i«oij*rty °f Thomas Aldridge. J ! Evidence identifying the articles % which formed the basis of the charges % was given l>y the respective owners, and % Detective McLcod, who arrested the ac--5 ewjed at Te Arai on December 19, de--51 pored to finding the articles in their S possession. . , jk\ Tho accused pair pleaded guilty, and X wei'e committed for sentence tff M ie !h >Supreme Court- at Wellington. ri\ Tim olso pleaded guilty to tho theft 5' on Dumber 19 of a private mail hag, !» the property of" Jhe New Zealand Govg ernment, and wert. commuted on this %\ i-lwrgo also. -« ' j-«alfM' A"d Hill were further charged 3>ithat ou December 14, at Ohau, they lM stole ft gig, valued flt £ls, and one S ! horse, the property of Leonard NewOidick, /|> On these charges they wer« remaniji ed to appear at Palmerston North on ' Tuesday.