YOUNG BURGLAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1938, Page 15

YOUNG BURGLAR

SERIES OF OFFENCES

REVOLVER WITHOUT PERMIT

{By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, October 6. Arrested in possession of a loaded revolver which, according to police evidence, he proposed to fire into the air to frighten anyone in the event of his being disturbed during his escapades, Vernon Williamson, radio mechanic, aged 19, appeared, before Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court. '

He admitted 14 charges of attempted and actual breaking and entering and theft, receiving stolen property, and procuring a revolver without a permit.

It was alleged that the burglaries and attempted burglaries occurred in seven shops and three baches in New Lynn, Titirangi, Green Bay, Huia, and Oratia, in the Waitakene district, between April 6 and September 11, and that £45 6s 3d worth of goods and money was involved.

Property mentioned in the charges included three radio sets, two pairs of binoculars, electrical, equipment, a clock, petrol, iron, cutlery, smoking materials, groceries, fruit and vegetables, confectionery, cordials, medical tonics and bandages, tooth paste, gumboots, shoe laces, fishing lines, battery cells, and stamps.

On 12 indictable charges the accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. On two summary counts he was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within a year.