SERIES OF THEFTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 4 December 1930, Page 16

SERIES OF THEFTS.

TWO MEN ADMIT CHARGES. (PRESS JISEOCTATIOIT TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, December 3. A series of thefts from premises by night carried out with the aid of a motor-car, skeleton keys, and stolen implements was admitted in the Magistrate's Court to-day by two electricians, Robert Meynell Calvert and William Gladstone Thorns, each aged 21. They were committed for sentence. The charges to which Thorns and Robert Calvert pleaded guilty were ten of breaking, entering, and theft, and three of theft of money and goods. "William Francis Calvert, aged 23, a carpenter, denied five charges of breaking, entering, and theft, and one charge ol receiving goods, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained, and he was committed for trial. The total value of the money and goods concerned was £437 10s 6d. All three were remanded to appear at Pahiatua on December sth on a joint charge of breaking, entering, and theft of money and goods valued at £253 4s 4d. Detective McLennan gave evidence that on November 18th, in company with Detective Jarrold, he arrested Thorns and Robert Calvert at their homes in Petone, and William Calvert at his home in Eastbourne. In the possession of each accused was found a quantity of goods that had been stolen from different shops. Thorns and Robert Calvert admitted the offences, but- William Calvert said in respect of the charges before the Court that the goods in bis» possession had been given nim by the two other accused. Robert _ Calvert and Thorns made statements in which they described the different thefts they had committed in Lower Hutt, Petone, Morea, and Pahiatua.