SERIES OF OFFENCES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20180, 7 March 1931, Page 9

SERIES OF OFFENCES.

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST TWO YOUTHS^ [IBB VBEBB ■ Spaeta! Bsrrtce.] '/ " ' - T)UNEDIN», March''fil; ' amazing story of tbe midnight peregrinations 'of Wo' brothers/ " Leslie William Gibbons an& Basil Gibj ■ bons, was told in .the' Magistrate's Court to-day by a third youth who acted j in, the novel capacity" off chauffeur fpr I a knight which was,notablq for. a. .series of crimes which, the brothers ate'alleged, to committed or ! attejnp.ted i to commit. The Gibbonsbrothors'facfid charges and breaking and entering, and also brie of being idle 'and disorderly and consorting with thieves. A long list of witnesses gave some startling evidence, .but nothing „was 80; sensational as the story of-a" young who, having- borrpwed a car. for the night, spent"" some hours accused around the town while they v plied'their desperate calling." He told "how they broke and entered several premises, waited'in a dark alley for a musical conductor,who they said sayea himself by going in by the front door Instead of the backhand visited, vt&9 house of an equally weU-known muBW teacher where "their luck was crabbed by someone standing on the corner. ■ Witness" described .the breaking in of doors and the rapiji pi booty which appeared ,in Cqnrt as 'ex; hibit'B-7»lk stocking, a. battered liftf bottles'of. whisky and wfine, purses, tools and a variety, of feminine articles ol clothing, some of whicli was ™«>vered from sewers, much.- "from vacant" lotiß and' more from accuseds' house. ; 1 A Salvation Army officer .related tho? he-salvaged a safe fromthe breaker! 'at Lawyer's Head. Both were remanded for a.week,, - . Over 1400 men. are employed.bj the Dunedin City Oorporation underithi No; 5 Scheme- of- the Unemploymen Boardx the Boaird mtine] for-the Wages. - The men for two, three, or four days aceOTflmj to the number of dependents. eligible man is at present being takei on> in his partiodarv section, the guali fication for starting bping that he #htfl ■ the,ipcal;Labow sßageatt-for fogrteeitrday««* ' v