Stolen Rings.
RAID ON PAWNBROKER’S. TWO THIEVES CAUGHT. HAMILTON AND WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph —Press Association). AUCKLAND, Sept. 17. As a > sequel to the “smash and grab” raid on a pawnbroker’s shop on September 1, Frank Edgar Gibson, aged 18, painter, and William Ernest Hewins, aged 26, labourer, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day to breaking and entering and stealing 44 diamond rings vdlued at £ll2. They were committed for sentence. , •; The police stated that after the theft the accused went to Hamilton, where Gibson was arrested wbilo trying to sell some of the rings, Hewins reached Wellington, selling a few rings on the way, and when arrested handed over 34 rings.
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19210, 17 September 1934, Page 3
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