OLD MAN'S MONEY
A MASTERTON CASE
When Frank Chapman and Frederick John Scriven appeared in the Supreme Court to-day.- to answer charges 'of breaking and entering and theft and alternatively of ■ theft, at Masterton, Chapman, for ..whom' Mr. S.\W.. _tzherbert appeared, pleaded guilty; to breaking .and: entering and theft. The plea was accepted by. Mr." C." -Evans-Scott for the Crown and,, with the permissionof his Honour Mr. Justice Blair, the charge of theft was withdrawn.-Chap-: man was remanded'for sentence- until to-morrow... -.' '.-■'. Outlining the case against Scriven, for whom Mr.. J. _eltzer appeared, Mr. Evans-Scott said' that' the alleged offence occurred one Sunday afternoon in. Bunny street,! Masterton. An, old age pensioner, Henry McStea, lived in a whare there, and while he was out for the afternoon two men, one recognised^ as Scriven and the other corresponding to the description of Chapman, went to the whare. - When McStea returned he found that £11 2s 6d which he had had in the. whare had disappeared. Scriven and Chapman went to,a hotel in a licensed area outside Master-: ton and they were there later questioned by Sergeant Dyer and Constable Le Comte. . ".. Evidence is now being heard.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 33, 9 February 1933, Page 13
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194OLD MAN'S MONEY Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 33, 9 February 1933, Page 13
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