COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
A young man named Augustus Isidor Rockstrow, whose relations are understood to live in the North Island, and who was recently sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for killing trout by using dynamite, was charged at the Invercargill Police Court on Thursday with having, on or about the 4th April, broken and entered the shop of William Alexander Cockbnrn, Mataura, and stolen therefrom tin of herrings, a loaf of bread, half a pound of batter, a quantity of sugar and tea, a calico bag, 12 boxes of matches, 2 candles, 36 packets of cigarettes, a Remington pea rifle, and 9 boxes of ammunition, of the total value of £3 Bs, the property of W. A. Cockburn. He was also charged with wilfully setting fire to bags of soda, sugar and bran, so situated that he knew the shop of the said W. A. Oockburn was likely to catch fire therefrom. After a number of witnesses had been examined, the accused pleaded guilty, and was committed for trial.
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Southern Cross, Volume 9, Issue 4, 27 April 1901, Page 9
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169COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Southern Cross, Volume 9, Issue 4, 27 April 1901, Page 9
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