SMASH AND GRAB RAID
SEQUEL IN COURT. AUCKLAND, Monday.. As a sequel to a smash-and-grab raid at a pawnbroker’s shop on Ist September, Frank Edgar Gibson, aged 18, a painter, and William Ernest Hewins, aged 26, a labourer, pleaded guilty today to breaking and • entering and stealing 44 diamond rings, valued at £ll2. They were committed for sentence. After the theft the men went to Hamilton, where Gibson was. arrested for trying to sell a ring. Hewins reached Wellington, selling a few rings on the way, and when he was arrested he handed over 34 rings.— (P-A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 September 1934, Page 2
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