THEFTS INVOLVE £650.
Two Relief Workers Admit Series of Offences. Two relief workers, Walter Albert Speer, 24 years of age, of St Asaph Street, and Walter Bell, 30 years of age, of Barbadoes Street, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M , to-day to eight charges of breaking and entering and theft and were committed to the Supreme Court for senHouseholders in giving evidence in respect to the charges reported an aggregate loss in property of over £650. Some of the goods had been recovered. The thefts were committed during the past seven months and affected persons in many parts of the city. Speer was also committed for sentence on two further charges of breaking and entering with theft. The householders concerned said that their losses were £25 and £69 respectively.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20543, 19 February 1935, Page 7
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135THEFTS INVOLVE £650. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20543, 19 February 1935, Page 7
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