ARMED BURGLARS
YOUTHS ADMIT GUILT (Vnr PrsRS Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. James Linland Anderson, 18, a butcher, and Maurice Hamilton Gregory, 17, a laborer, pleaded guilty before the magistrate, Mr. E. C. Lovvey, to six charges of breaking and entering and theft, and were committed for sentence, bail of £SOO each and a surely of £SOO being allowed. The police said that when arrested the accused had torches, sandbags, a tyre lever, and a loaded revolver in their possession, and also a muslin mask. Anderson had said that if cornered he would not have used the revolver, but would have used the sandbag. Witnesses gave evidence that houses had been entered while narties were propressing, jewellery and guests', money licing stolen.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17094, 29 October 1929, Page 8
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