SERIES OF CHARGES

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 96, 17 January 1935, Page 3

SERIES OF CHARGES

Admission By Labourer By Telegraph.—Press Association. . Christchurch, January 15. Twenty-two charges, involving shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm, breaking and entering with theft, attempts to break and enter, conversion of motor-cars, and pointing a firearm, were preferred against Leslie Pearce in the Magistrate’s Court today. Pearce was arrested after a long chase through the streets of the city shortly before midnight on December 6 of last year. It was stated in evidence that during the chase Pearce several times threatened his pursuers with a loaded revolver.

Robert James Mitchell, who lived in the same house as Pearce, appeared on one count, to which he pleaded not guilty, of breaking and entering the premises of the Selwyn Hosiery Manufacturing Company, Limited, with intent to commit crime. The offence occurred, it is alleged, on December 6, and the police claimed that Mitchell was associated with Pearce on this night. Pearce pleaded guilty to all charges, except the one of discharging a firearm at Charles Bourke Bourne, at Woodend, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. All charges were heard except those relating to the M oodend incidents. Mitchell was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, while Pearce was committed for sentence.