MACHINE-GUNS AND RIFLE
THEFT ALLEGED
A SERIES OF CHARGES
(By Telegraph—bPress Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
Charged in the Magistrate's Court today with the theft of two Hotehkiss machine-guns, two tripod mountings, two spare barrels, and one military service, rifle from the Drill Hall at Ashburton, two brothers, James-Mer-vyn Philp, aged 20, and William Lewis Philp, aged 24, pleaded not guilty. There were also a long series of charges relating to the conversion of motor-cars, motor-cycles, and trucks, and thefts and burglaries in Christchurch airid Mid-Canterbury. Both the accused were committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1939, Page 9
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96MACHINE-GUNS AND RIFLE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1939, Page 9
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