AUCKLAND COURT

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVV, Issue 18, 25 January 1927, Page 5

AUCKLAND COURT

BREAKINC AND ENTERING. AUCKLAND, Monday. At the Police Court to-day William Gjbson loung and Leonard David Williams, pleaued guilty to two charges of breaking,, entering and theft, while ioung pleaded guilty to six other charges of a similar nature. Young, in a statement to the police, detailed how he obtained entrance to two Chinese shops and obtained money, in one case while the occupants were asleep. He also told of how lie went into Natha Patuls fruit shop in Jervois Road, Poiißonby, where he covered his lace with a handkerchief and presented a toy revolver at the Hindis telling him to put his hands up and to hand over his money. "He handed me a little over £4 in silver," said Young. The accused were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. PARNELL BURGLARY. The identity of the burglar who carried out a threat to wreck a shop at Parnell if he found no money on his second visit was revealed in the Police Court to-day, when Charles Oclavian Orlando Georgi, aged 20., pleaded guilty to a variety of charges, including lour of breaking and entering shops and stealing goods. In a statement to the police, accused said he could not! find any money in the shops, but he found some eggs and bacon, and cooked and ate them. He wrote a message contalining a threat to wreck the shop, but this was done out of bravado, as he then had no intention of returning. The next night he went back and took chocolates, fruit, and drinks. Accused was caught in a meat company's simp near Mount Albert a few days later. Accused was committed t-o> the Supreme Court for sentence. LODGE MONEY STOLEN. AUCKLAND, Monday. The theft of lodge money totalling £3O lfls 9d was admitted by Ernest Wright, a young man, in the Police Court to-day. Wright was secretary to the Richmond Lodge 4428, New Zealand, No. 13, Royal Antedeluvian Order of buffaloes, said Senior Detective Hammond. The remuneration he received for this work was only nominal—ibout £3 a quarter. Originally he was a ship's steward by occupation •ind had been in New Zealand only 12 months. Accused was remanded for sen--1 fence.