BURGLARIES ADMITTED
TWO MEN IN COURT
LONG LIST OF CHARGES
(Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day
Arising out of police investigations following the recent arrest of two men in connection with a burglary at Havelock North, Mr. ,T. Miller, S.M., yesterday heard 27 charges of breaking and entering and theft against Jack Irwin and George Reginald Harrison. Irwin was charged separately on 10 counts and Harrison on six, and they were jointly charged on 11 .counts. Six of the charges are indictable. The charges involve thefts from various dwellings, farmhouses and other places in and about Hastings and Napier, and the goods alleged to have been stolen aggregate nearly £375 in value.
The accused pleaded guilty to the summary charges. Irwin was sentenced to gaol for three months on each charge, the terms to be concurrent. Harrison was also sentenced to gaol for three months on each charge, the terms to be cumulative on the first two.
On the indictable offences, both pleaded guilty and were committed to the Supreme Court in Wellington for sentence.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19360924.2.38
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19128, 24 September 1936, Page 5
Word Count
175BURGLARIES ADMITTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19128, 24 September 1936, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in