Receiver Sold Jewellery Worth £1000 In Month

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30960, 17 January 1966, Page 6

Receiver Sold Jewellery Worth £1000 In Month

(New Zealand Press Association)

AUCKLAND, Jan. 14. Jewellery worth £1482 13s I Gd obtained in four burglaries, ' passed through the bands of a : 23-year-old wharf labourer, Shaun Swaine Hetherington, in less than a month, Sergeant E. R. Hutchinson told Mr F. McCarthy, S.M., today. Hetherington, who admitted receiving the property, knowing it was stolen, was convic-

ted and remanded to January 21, for sentence. Three youths also appeared jointly charged with two of the burglaries. Two pleaded guilty, but the third, a 20-year-old workman, William Edison Reed, did not enter a plea and was remanded for a week. The others, Patrick Stewart, aged 20, a carpenter, and John Lewis Kerr, aged 17, a coffeebar assistant, were convicted and remanded in custody to the same date for sentence. Mr Hutchinson said that Stewart and Kerr took part in raids on the jew'ellery shops of Donald Coltman, Ltd., and Godart’s, Ltd. Watches and other jewellery worth £509 were taken from Godarts and property worth £l6B 2s from Coltmans’. Hetherington received this and jewellery worth £BO5 Ils 6d taken from Balmoral Jewellers, Ltd. and Noel Hotham, Ltd., Papakura. Hetherington sold all the jewellery he received, except for some worth £4OO taken from Godarts. This was later recovered from a bush patch at Titirangi.