THEFT FROM FUR COMPANY
CHARGE OF RECEIVING GOODS. YOUNG MAN SENT FOR TRIAL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, May 30. Following upon the robbery, at the Arctic Fur Company’s Newton factory, of £6OO worth oi goods stolen by Frank Buller and Jack Johnston, already committed for sentence, a young man, Archibald McLean came before the Police Court to-day charged with receiving and converting to his own use 24 fur coats, 12 chokers, two Kolinski capes, 12 fox skins and also with having wilfully attempted to defeat the course of justice. , McLean, in a statement, said that he was a wharf labourer. He first met Buller on May 9 in town. Buller gave him a luggage ticket on the railway station, stating that it was for a bag of furs. If lie could drop them he could make £4. He collected the bag of furs a few days later and took it home, and placed it in the wash-house. Buller did not tell him where he got the furs from, but he knew the fure had been stolen.
The accused, who pleaded not guilty, ■was committed to the Supreme Court for- trial. Bail was allowed in one surety of £lOO.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1927, Page 11
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