COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1931, Page 5

COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE

SEVERAL. THEFT CHARGES. DUNEDIN, June 18. Arthur G avail, a young man, was [committed lor sentence on a charge ot urea king and entering a warehouse, and stealing tobacco and cigarettes valued at £ll6. The accused in statement said he hired a car in Christchurch and left for Dunedin with two companions, whose names he did not wish to meirtion. Two days later he met his companions at night outside a warehouse and loaded four sacks. He arranged that he should see his companions at Christchurch when he agreed to drop the sacks with a tobacconist whom he did not wish to mention. He left for the north the same night'and was arrested at Timaru, Counsel said accused did not enter the premises, but merely assisted from without. John McCulloch Forsyth charged with obtaining £'2o by falsely stating he was in a position to employ, as a motor driver, any person prepared to pay. £2O. was sentenced to one year’s reformative, and remanded to Christchurch on another charge. "Robert William Paul, a Post Office messenger charged with stealing a leter containing bank notes and postal rotes„ of a total value of £2 12s the property of the Postmaster-General, was committed for sentence.