COLOURED MAN IN COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1900, 7 November 1913, Page 7

COLOURED MAN IN COURT.

SERIES Of CHARGES. (By Telegraph,—Pros? AssocdnitiiHt.) Auckland, November 6. Charged with committing two burglaries at Mercer, and also wjth obtaining money from an Auckland tradesman witli itttont to defraud, a coloured man named Arcllio Win. Taylor was brought beforo tlm Polico Court to-day. it was alleged by tlm prosecution that accused, Who had but. recently . arrived in the country as a member of a company of minstrels, started operations in Auckland on October lfi. According to t'ho evidence, lie went to a hairdresser and represented himself as a tailoring firm's. ! traveller. Accused wvts stated to have induced the hairdresser to pay £1 deposit' for a. suit, leaving the' halajrce. Ho did Hot return with the s'iiiit> and ' tho hairdresser came to tho. eonclcrsion that ho had been victimised. Accused, it was alleged, had no connection with the tailoring firm. Accused, it was further alleged, was next heard of Of Mercer, several ditys later. A Maori living in a fivo.-roomod hoUso near that town locked up the dwelling <?n Octohor 20 prior to going into isolation during the smallpox Scare. Five days later ho revisited the house and found that it had been broken into. Jewellery, Sundry articles, and money to tlip total value of £46 7a. Gd, were missing. A wharo belonging to another isolated Maori was also broken into, and about ■! £2 worth of goods stolon. In close proximity to* the wharo was fennel ft receipt-book, and it' Was .alleged that tho book was identical with one used bv the accused when lie obtained the £1 deposit from the hairdresser. Accuscd Wis subsequently found in Auckland pawning some stolon jewellery. Wlion taxed with, having committed the burglaries ho throw, the blame on to a friend of his. Accused . pleaded not guilty, and Was committed' to tho Supremo Court far trial.