HOUSE ROBBED

Southland Times, Issue 22042, 15 June 1933, Page 8

HOUSE ROBBED

JEWELLERY TAKEN. TWO MEN CHARGED. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 14. The story of how a dwellinghouse in Evans Bay road was entered on the King’s Birthday and a quantity of jewellery stolen, was related to Mr Page, S.M., in the Police Court to-day when William George John Duming, a labourer, aged 22, and James Lawrence Jamieson Tait, a labourer, aged 23, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the premises and stealing jewellery. Richard Edward Metz, manager for the Lambton Quay branch of R. Hannah and Co., said he left his residence, leaving all the doors and windows, with the exception of a fanlight, securely locked. Upon returning he found the back door open and. the house ransacked. Among the articles missing was about £2O worth of jewellery. Detective Compin said that on June 7 he went with Durning to a house in Aro street where he dug up from the garden a bundle containing articles of jewellery. At the detective office he made a statement to the effect that he and Tait had broken into Metz’s house and had taken certain jewellery and had later sold some to gold buyers. When interviewed Tait also admitted the burglary. Detective Compin said there were still certain articles missing, and from his interviews with the two men he thought Durning had taken them. Both the accused pleaded guilty and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was’ refused.