THEFT CHARGES

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1932, Page 5

THEFT CHARGES

CASES HEARD AT WELLINGTON. f Per Preu Association— Copyright.) . WELLINGTON, Aug. 3, Found guLty by a jury on two charge* of receiving (roods stolen from a Newtown grocery store mid n city warehouse., George James Frederick Ferguson, a labourer, ngefl 24, was remanded for sentence by Justice Reid. ' The ease had been tried with that of Arthur Cornelius Drummond, a taxi-driver, aged 23, who. was found not guilty on all counts and discharged. ■ . ■ Bottles of assorted liquor, a pistol, a large quantity of tobacco ftad cigarettes were produced as exhibits. Both men were < lKtrg-*HwjJJi ; breaking and entering the Self Help- grocery store, Rintoul Street, - and stealing goods valukd at “about' £4O, and . with breaking and entering a few days latter the warehouse of W. ,1). Dobson and Co., Taranaki Street, and stealing liquor and cigarettes of a total valine, of £96 lls 6d. Ferguson and Drummond also were' charged with having knowingly received stolen propelrfcy./ /'’■■'/ 7vt j-.v “ The evidence showed that Drummond mkrely accepted the men concerned in the robbefieq Th» fares, not knowing that the suitcases they carried , con- ( taiiied stolen goods. Ferguitan pleaded that hie took no part of the robberies and did not know the goods were stolen. Four other men concerned in the robberies have Already pleaded guilty and are awaiting , sentences.