BURGLARIES ADMITTED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 225, 24 September 1942, Page 3

BURGLARIES ADMITTED

LABOURER FOR SENTENCE

Auckland, Sept. 22. Following the breaking and entering of premises in Auckland, at Helensville and Kaukapakapa, in the course of which four safes were blown open, and the arrest of a suspect on September 3, a labourer, Samuel Jamieson McKee, aged 31 (Mr. Meek) appeared before Messrs. G. H. Robertson and S. Phillips, J.P.'s, yesterday. Accused, who was arrested by Detective-Sergeant O. Power and Detective W. H. Cromwell, was charged on seven counts, involving over £987 in property and money. Detective-Sergeant Aplin prosecuted. Statements in which accused admitted breaking into the store of Frank Dye and Sons at Kaukapakapa, the Kaipara Dairy Company's premises at Helensville twice, Phillips and Impey’s premises and those of Joseph Lucas (N.Z.), Limited, in Beach Road, Auckland, and the Strand Shoe Store, Strand Arcade, and also the stealing of a car valued at £320 from Owairaka were produced bv Detective Cromwell. Witness produced a hat found in the Strand store which was admitted by accused to be his property. In a statement accused said that on September 2, accompanied bv another man, whose name he did not wish to disclose, he broke into the Strand Shoe Store at 6.45 p.m. They were making a search of drawers when a man entered by the front door. Accused and the other man managed to push past him and escaped down Queen Street, after scrambling over a steel grille. Accused left a hat and torch behind. Pleas of guilty were entered to all charges, and accused was committed to the Supreme Court, for sentence.