A HOUSE STRIPPED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 13 April 1928, Page 9

A HOUSE STRIPPED

HOLE IN DIVIDING WALL MELBOURNE, April 4. "When James Edward Goonan, the Carlton footballer, left his home in Station street, Carlton, to go on a holiday trip on Christmas Eve,, he locked the' doors and nailed up the windows. When he returned lie was amazed to find the premises turned upside down —practically the whole of the moveable, contents had) been taken. A'hole had been made in the dividing wall between. his house and the adjoining house. . In Carlton court yesterday Crank Dutch, alias McMahon, 28, bricklayer, was charged with having broken into the house and stolen Jewellery, a sewing machine, many music rolls, a wireless set, twelye . glass dishes and numerous other articles to the value of £l5O. Goqnon said he. rvas still reckoning up the full amount of his loss. .Accused had lived next door, and tho hole in the wall was large enough for a man to pass through. . Patrick Jackson,, manager of a Eitzroy loan office,' said that on December 31 accused, saying that he was James E. Goonan and that he owned a house full of furniture, asked for a loan of £3 on a sewing machine. Witness agreed to advance him that amount. Later he asked for an additional £2, and that was also given him. Accused, who pleaded not guilty), was committed for trial.