CRIMES OF THEFT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7

CRIMES OF THEFT

THREE MEN FOUND GUILTY [ Per Press Association. ] IDUNEDLN, June 18. Arthur Gavin, a young man, was CGiuinitted for sentence on a charge uf breaking and entering a warehouse and stealing tobacco and cigarct&is valued at £ll5. Accused, in a statement, said that he hired a car in Christchurch and left for Dunedin with tw r o companions whoso names he did not wish to mention. Two days later he met the companions at night outside tho warehouse and loaded four sacks. He arranged that he should .see bis companions nt Christchurch, where he agreed to drup the sacks with a tobacconist, whom be did not wish to mention. He left lor the north the same night and was ar rested at Timaru. Counsel said that accused did not enter the premises, but muicly assisted from without. Jihn McCullach Forsyffi, charge! with obtaining £2O by falsely stating that he was in a position to employ as a motor driver any person prepared to paj £2O was sentenced to one year’s reformative detention. He was remanded to Christchurch on another eha rge. Robert William Paul, a Post Office messenger, who was charged with st.ui.iag a letter containing bank notes and a postal noto of a total value of £2 12s, the property of the Postmaster General, was committed for sentence.