THEFT OF WATCHES AT WESTPORT
CHRISTCHURCH ..'.MAN FOR * ' • ' ■' SENTENCE n
ITSK PBJESS 'Special Service.]
- ' WESTPORT;'September 29. Pleading guilty to a charge of breaking and entering the jewellery .shop of A. G. Fetley TWestpprtVand the theft of. three, watches and a' watch .band valued -at/"£14.105, Gordon Alexander aged 21,- "a, labourer, ■ of Christenufch, appeared on remand today before .Messrs G. -Aitken -'and C. H. Thomas, J.F.*s,'iri the Police Court, "Wefitport, and waf. committed for sentence at the next sitting' of ihe- Supreme Court" at Christchurch; J> Evidence was given by" Sergeant H. H." Russell of the'investigations made by the 'police and the subsequent' arrest of-Anderson after the missing articles were' found on him at/the police station." Anderson had said " that one watch belonged to,his. brother .at Wei-' lington., and later he claimed that he was intoxicated "on the. night of September 27 and put his "arm through the window and then Jiad been tempted into taking the watches. Constable P. Condon corroborated the sergeant's evidence and. Petley gave evidence about the value of the articles stoleruand.the. .broken window, which he saidfwbuld take £2O to replace.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22520, 30 September 1938, Page 18
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