THIEVES WITH MOTOR-CAR

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1930, Page 8

THIEVES WITH MOTOR-CAR

EXTENSIVE RAIDS BY NIGHT TWO MEN ADMIT THEIR GUILT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A series of thefts from premises by night, carried out with the aid of a motor-car, skeleton keys and stolen implements, was admitted in the Police Court to-day by two electricians, Robert Meynell Calvert and William Gladstone Thoms, each aged 21.. They were committed for sentence. The charges to which ‘Thoms and Robert Calvert pleaded guilty 1 were ten of breaking and entering and theft, and three of theft of money and goods. William Francis Calvert, aged 23, a carpenter, denied five charges of breaking and entering and theft, and one charge of receiving goods knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained, and he was committed for trial. The total value of the money and goods concerned was £437.105'; ■ ■

All three were remanded to appear ai Paliiatua on December 5 on a joint charge of breaking and entering and theift of money and goods valued at £"353 4s 4d. : • - Detective McLennan gave evidence that on November IS in company with Detective Jarrold he arrested Thoms : and Robert Calvert at their homes at -Petone and William Calvert at his home at Eastbourne. In possession of each accused was. found a quantity of goods that had been stolen from different shops. Thoms and Robert Calvert admitted the offences, blit William Calvert said in respect of the charges before the court that tlie goods in his possession had been given him by the two other accused.'* Robert Calvert and Thoms made statements iu which they described the different thefts they had committed in Lower Hutt, Petone, Moera and Pahiatua. - :