BREAKING AND ENTERING

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1932, Page 19

BREAKING AND ENTERING

Trevor Thomas Barnett, a labourer, aged IS, who pleaded guilty at the Magistrate's Court yesterday to four charges of breaking and entering, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. When interviewed by Detoetive A. Reid the aeeused frankly admitted the offences and disclosed two other thefts. The accused also admitted that he had obtained a quantity of sausages from a butcher by falsely representing that they were for a Mrs, Dixon, who wanted them for some of her boarders who were going on the mystery train. The accused explained that when he obtained the sausages he had no money and wanted something to eat. Detective-Sergeant Rcvell said that in 1930 the accused-was sentenced to two years' Borstal detention for the unlawful conversion of a motor-car, and theft. Tho Magistrate; Mr. E. Page, dealt with the accused summarily on the charges of theft and of false pretences. On the first theft charge he sentenced the accused to reformative detention for a period not exceeding three years. On the remaining theft' charge and the charge o? false pretences, tho accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within throe years if called upon.

On a further charge of assaulting Cecilia Anne Bodell with intent, to commit a crime, Barnett was remanded to appear at Palmerston North on 14th October.