JEWEL ROBBERY
SECOND CONVIC-T'l OX. DISPOSAL OF THE BOOTY. DUNEDIN, August 10. The sensational jewel robbery from Dawson and Co. in .January, for winch a man named Wilson was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment last .June came forward again at the Polue Court this morning when his mate, WiJl.am Newton, alias .Sullivan, alias' Biul’e, who was arrested at Christchurch, pleaded guilty .to breaking and entering the shop and stealing £3OOO worth of jewellery. 'The police evidence showed that e.vton ni.itu: a .suii count w hen brought here in which he admitted the robbery. Jn the Sunday night following the Saturday burglary, Newton went to Christchurch and Wilson went to Mellonrne bV the Maheno. Wilson got £75 n .Melbourne for his share, Newton receiving £lO from this. On Wilson’s rein, Newton's share of the robbery was seventy-nine rings, which he sold indiscriniiirately to people as bankrupt stock from Napier. Thirty of them, he said, were beyond recovery, but he bad supplied information that might lead to the recovery of the remaining fortynine. Accused was committed for sentence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1931, Page 3
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