EXCITING MOTOR CHASE.
SEQUEL IN SUPREME COURT. VALUE OF FINGER PRINTS. AUCKLAND, Monday. A sequel lo an exciting motor car chase in the early hours of August 6 was heard in the Supreme Court to-day, when Thomas Herbert Skinner (27) and Ina Beatrice Wells (25) were charged with breaking and entering a shop and stealing confectionery valued at £l6 14s 10, also with attempting to break and enter another shop, with intent to commit theft. Pleading guilty, Skinner was sentenced to eighteen months' reformative detention, ana will give evidence against the girl, who pleaded not guilty. During the Crown counsel's address Mr Juslice Reed remarked that the identity of the confectionery stolen by finger prints on jars was rather singular. He had often heard of finger prints being used to prove the identity of an accused person, but never to identify stolen goods.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17243, 31 October 1927, Page 7
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143EXCITING MOTOR CHASE. Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17243, 31 October 1927, Page 7
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