THIEVES IN SUBURBS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 231, 30 September 1929, Page 10

THIEVES IN SUBURBS.

MEAT AND MONEY STOLEN. SUSPECT IN CUSTODY. LORRY PARTY AT HO WICK. Thieves were busy on Saturday afternoon at Howick and Panmure, when two thefts were reported to the police. Between 2.30 and 5.15 p.m. on Saturday a quantity of meat was stolen from the safe at the Panmure Hotel, while a lady's skirt was removed from a room upstairs. Acting-Detective Kelly, who happened to be in the district on inquiries at the time, immediately got to work and went to Howick, where he found a party of three men and two women. Tlie five had travelled that afternoon from Auckland. One man, the driver of the motor lorry, was questioned, Acting-Detective Kelly finding in the lorry the meat and skirt stolen from the hotel. The meat was in a sack and the skirt under a cushion in the front seat. The driver, Maurice Joseph Corkery (27), a polisher, was arrested on a charge of stealing a fore-quarter of mutton, a side of lamb and fillet steak, of a total value of fl, belonging to the licensee of the Panmure Hotel. About 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, during the temporary absence of Mr. Gustav Augustus Newton from his garage at Howick, a thief entered the premises and stole £9 in cash from the till.

Four Further Arrests,

Last night at fl o'clock Detectives Kelly, Stephenson, Hunt and McWhirter went to a house in Union Street, Freeman's Bay, and there arrested the other four persons who were alleged to have been in the lorry party at Howick on Saturday. The quartet comprised Olive Peters (30), a milliner. Gwendoline Lewis (24), waitress, Raymond Woodward (32), labourer, and Charles Henry Whitehead (30), a labourer. They appeared at the Police Court this morning, when Lewis was charged with being an idle and disorderly person with insufficient means of support, and the other three with being idle and disorderly persons who habitually consorted with reputed thieves. On the application of Mr. J. J. Sullivan, who appeared for the accused, they were remanded until to-morrow, bail being allowed. Woodward, who pleaded guilty to a further charge of trespassing on the Avondale racecourse when a race meeting was being held there, was remanded on this charsre. also. Corkery, for whom Mr. Alan Smyth appeared, was also remanded until 'tomorrow moni'iig.