MAORI FOR SENTENCE
BREAKING AND ENTERING ADMITTED THEFT FROM DWELLING Pleading guilty before Messrs. P. Lewis and C. L. Duigan, J.’sP., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wanganui, yesterday, to two charges of breaking and entering, a Maori, Maurice Rongonui, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Accused was charged with breaking and entering the house of Mrs. Metekingi by night and taking £lO in cash and sundry articles of a total value of £ll 9s, the property of Mrs. M. Crisp, a visitor from Wellington, and breaking and entering the house ot Mrs. E. McDonald by day. Detective J. Murray said Rongonui broke into Mrs. Metekingi’s house and stole the contents of a handbag from a room in which two children were sleeping. Rongonui was seen loitering near Mrs. McDonald’s house. Mrs. McDonald went to investigate and ■saw him jump over a fence and hide behind a haystack. She called to him to come to her, nut there was no response, so she went to a neighbour for assistance. On returning Mrs. McDonald saw Rongonui riding off on a bicycle.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 7
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180MAORI FOR SENTENCE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 7
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