BURGLAR ADMITS BIG JEWEL CRIME.
HAD BEEN SELLING STOLEN RINGS IN CITY. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, August 10. The sensational jewel robbery from Dawson and Co. in January, for which a man named Wilson was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment last June, came forward again at the Police Court this morning when his mate, William Newton, alias Sullivan, alias Burke, who was arrested at Christchurch, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the shop and stealing £3OOO worth of jewellery. The police evidence showed that Newton made a statement when brought here in which he admitted the robbery. On the Sunday night following the Saturday burglary, Newton went to Christchurch and Wilson went to Melbourne by the Maheno. Wilson got £75 in Melbourne for his share, Newton receiving £lO from this. On Wilson’s return, Newton’s share of the robbery was seventy-nine rings, which he sold indiscriminately to people as bankrupt stock from Napier. Thirty of them, he said, were beyond recovery, but he had supplied information that might lead to the recovery of the remaining forty-nine. Accused was committed for sentence.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 188, 10 August 1931, Page 7
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