DARING AND INGENIOUS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 86, 27 June 1930, Page 5

DARING AND INGENIOUS

IMPRISONMENT FOE ROTORUA BURGLAR. SOME HOUSES WERE ENTERED EOUR TIMES. Press Association — Copyright* ROTORUA, This Day. The climax to a series of robberiejs" was reached this morning when Mr Paterson, S.M., sentenced Hape Williams to twelve months' hard labour with, detention for two years. On other charges, for which the maximum was six months, accused was sentenced to three months' hard. On various other charges he was convicted. The cafj aroused considerable interest. Accuteed, who pleaded guilty Lo some thirty thefts, entered houses while the occupants Were moving about, choosing the hours between 7 and 8 p.m. Daring and in'genuity marked his operations. Some houses were entered four times. Nine of

the charges were for thefts in 1930, and twenty in 1929. A very large amount of stolen property was found in his pos&ession*. Accused was a hard-working man employed as a motor driver, o*u whom no suspicion was fixed. The Magistrate, in passing sentence, said the public must be protected against such depredations, which were becoming too common.