TWO EX-CONSTABLES
CHARGED WITH THEFT.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association )
WELLINGTON, Feb. 5
Pleas of guilty were entered by Joseph Maurice White, an artist, and Wilfred Leonard if a mm, an ex-con-stable, when they were charged in the Supreme Court to-daj T , before Mr Justice Reed, with offences arising out of a theft of goods from the shop of C. Smith, Ltd., in Cuba Street. White and Ramm pleaded gulity to breaking and entering the shop on various dates. between the 25 June and 17 December, 1929, and stealing goods valued at £166 18s Bd, and White also admitted breaking and entering the shops on the 17th December with intent to commit a crime,, and having been found in possession of house-' breaking implements. Both were remanded for sentence.
Hugh .Roberston Stevenson, who up to , the time ,of his arrest was a constable, was charged jointly with Ramm and White with breaking and entering the shop, and with theft, between 25 June and 17, December, and with receiving goods valued at £l7 ss, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. He pleaded not guilty to < both charges. •
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1930, Page 6
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