ALLEGED BURGLARY

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1920, Page 2

ALLEGED BURGLARY

. WELL-KNOWN CRIMINAL CHARGED. WELLINGTON, Jan. 31. The possessor of a notorious criminal record appeared in the dock at the Police Court in the person of Robert Dixon' Warden. This malefactor, a

young mail, who has long since been declared an habitunf criminal, made a sensational escape from Mount Eden Goal, at Auckland, in September last, and eventually succeeded in reaching Christchurch, in a suburb of which he was identified and arrested, after a strenuous tussle, by an alert constable. During the struggle, Warden drew n revolver, but this availed him not at all, and lie was taken to the Central Police Station, whore be was search ed, and was found to be in possession of considerable stolen property. It was this “find” that was responsible for his presence at the local court on charges that, at Wellington, on October Bth, he broke and entered the dwelling house of Guiseppe Tamilaro and stole therefrom, a watch, chain, locket, sovereign-case, diamond ring, an.d 6s lb cas K *he pioperty of Geatana Tamilaro, a.nf £LS cash, the property of Guiseppe Tamilaro; that, at Wellington, on Oct. 7th lie broke and entered the dwelling of one Frank Cooper, and stole therefortn one watch, two gold rings, one gold neck chaiji, one greenstone brooch, one gold brooch, npd a Is representing file Australian coat-of-a;;ms, of a total value of £l9 7s tJv,‘ property of Bertha-

Cooper. ’ , Evidence was given hv two hepnspa second-hand' dealers 1-hat they each purchased a ping from a niair on or about October 10th, To one dealer the vendor gave the name of J. Andrews, an< to the other that of W. Marklmm. Neither witness could swear that the accused was the man who sold the rings. Constable Williams, of the Sydenham Christchurch, polity, paid he attcsti. Warden on October 13th. Accused ha in his possession a wristlet watch and an Australian medal-identified by Mrs Cooper as her pyopm-ty-piicl « wa f cU and sovereign case Geatano Tamilaro .deposed that tU two last-named pieces qf jewellery longed to hint. , , .fleadAccused reserved hi. j-. j to ed ‘not guilty,” and was committed the Supreme Court for tna ,