SERIES OF GRIMES CLEARED UP

Evening Star, Issue 21750, 19 June 1934, Page 5

SERIES OF GRIMES CLEARED UP

OFFENDER'S CONFESSION

[Per United Press Association.] HAMILTON, June 18. On the night of May 21 a series of crimes was committed in the eastern districts of Waikato, and the sequel was heard in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when George Edward Morton, aged twenty-one, made a full confession, of having committed many of the crimes. He stated that he and a companion were involved in the charges preferred. He returned to Tirau in a motor car they had stolen the day after the crime had been committed, and.was arrested after an exciting sjxty-mile-anhour chase by the police. Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., was on the Bench. The accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court on charges of causing _ actual bodily harm, breaking and entering and theft at Tirau, and breaking and entering and theft at Hinuera. On a charge of the conversion of a car at Hinuera lie was sentenced to three months’ hard labour, the sentences to be cumulative with a similar term for the theft of an overcoat at Okoroire. lor the conversion of a bicycle at Okoroire he was sentenced to one month in gaol, the sentence to be concurrent with the previous sentences. For the_ theft of benzine at Waharoa, damaging a benzine bowser at Matamata, and the attempted conversion of a car at Okoroire, he was convicted and discharged, and was also convicted on the charge of driving in a dangerous manner, and prohibited from holding a driving license for three years. His companion has been arrested, and will appear before the court on Thursday.