BROKE INTO HOUSE IN SILVERSTREAM

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 151, 22 March 1939, Page 7

BROKE INTO HOUSE IN SILVERSTREAM

17-Year-Old Boy Admits Charge Keith Edward Walls, aged 17, Silverstream, pleaded guilty betore Messrs. J. T. Benge and .1. O. Duff, J.P.'s, in the Magistrates' Court, Upper Hutt, yesterday, to breaking and entering by day the house of Miss Phyllis O'Hara Smith, Uhatswood Road, .Silverstream, and stealing a travelling clock valued at £-1. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. He was also charged with the theft iu Wellington of £l/12/-, and 10/-, the property of Roy Douglas Morrison, He was convicted and di.-charg.ed on these counts. Detective-Sergeant H. C. Murcb said that Waifs was employed for a period tn Wellington, and stole the two sums of money from the clothing of a fellow employee. He bad been placed on probation last year on a similar charge. His parents were held in high regard iu the district, and the home conditions of accused were good. Miss O’Hara Smith gave evidence ot missing the clock when she returned home after a visit, to Christchurch. Valentine Parker, gardener, said he found evidence of an attempt to force the front door of Miss Smith's bouse; he found a window opened. Detective-Sergeant Murch, in evidence, said Wills frankly admitted taking the clock, and pawning it m Wellington, when interviewed by Sergeant J. W. McHulm and him. His explanation was that he was out of work at the time, and hard up for money. Mr I’ocock represented accused, vs he was allowed bail on the indictible charge in iiis mother’s recognisance of £t><», pending his being dealt, with by the Supreme Court. A condition was that he report weekly to the probation officer, Constable F. Williams.