MANY BURGLARIES
CONFESSION BY MEN
SEVENTEEN CASES ADMITTED
(By Telegraph —Per Press Association)
WELLINGTON, March 16
Seventeen of the biggest burglaries carried out in and round Wellington during the past twelve months weie cleared up to-day when Richard Ryan agedi>32, * a ..taxi-driver, Charles Partington aged' 31, a mechanic, and William Wiishuj aged 25, a photographer, were charged and pleaded guilty on various counts which concerned goods running into values of hundreds of pounds. The Court held an array which might stock a shop. Several of the crimes included the removal of safes. \
On the indictable charges they were committed for sentence. For being in unlawful possession of a revolver, Wilson and Partington were each fined £4, or in default 21 days. The revolver was stated to have been part of the booty of one of the burglaries.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1932, Page 5
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