THEFTS BY MILKMAN
RADIO SET AND CASH
HOUSE SET ON FIRE
GAOL FOR SIX MONTHS
(Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day
Horace Raymond Edlin, aged 31, a milk roundsman in the employ of a private company, pleaded guilty in the court to-day to a charge of breaking and entering on January 1, 1936, a house in Island Bay and stealing a radio set, imitation pearls, a pair of glass earrings, and 255, to a total value of £25 ss, and with wilfully setting fire to the house on January 2.
The occupier of the house, ,1, L. Looner, said in evidence that he and his wife were away on a holiday at the time. They returned on January 3 and found the house had been damaged by fire and that certain things were missing. The damage caused by lire and water amounted to £52. He identified property at the detective office.
Kdlin also pleaded guilty to a summary charge relating to the theft at. Christ church on March 12 of a suitcase and its contents, valued at £6 ss. The suitcase was taken from the railway station while the owner was absent. Edlin was sentenced to gaol for six months with hard labour.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 15
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