DENIAL OF BURGLARY
TWO MEN iSENT FOR TRIAL,
(By Telegraph. Press Association HAMILTON, Wednesday.
A charge of breaking and entering a store room of the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Co., Ltd., in Norton Road, Frankton, on October 18, and stealing a quantity of metal, valued at £ll ss, was preferred against Richard Thomas Carroll, aged 34, and Edward Brijnfleld, aged 42, before Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Hamilton Police Court to-day. Evidence was given by Norman G. Gray, engineer, that the store room was entered during the night of October iB-19, and that brass fittings, cast iron cogs and other metal material, produced in court, were stolen. Witness identified most of the articles. Thomas George Mullan, engineer, said the accused offered the articles to him for sale on October 19.
Detective A. J. White gave evidence that tyre marks seen near the store room referred to corresponded with the pattern of the tyres on the motor lorry used by the accused. When arrested the accused said they had bought the metal from the Te Awamutu Dairy Company. The accused pleaded not guilty, and were committed to the Supreme Court at Hamilton for trial. Bail was allowed.
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Waipa Post, Volume 47, Issue 3385, 26 October 1933, Page 4
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