OLD MAN CHARGED
COUNCIL OFFICES BURGLED.
(Per Press Association — Copyright.)
TE AROHA, November B.’
Charles Barclay Dewar, (an elderly man, was charged in the Te Aroha Court to-day with breaking and entering the Te Aroha Borough Council Chambers on October. Bth., and attempting to break open the strong room door with explosives. /
Evidence was given by the Paeroa police that when arrested- there, as a rogue and! a vagabond, the accused had a bag of tools in which was a broken file. The present charge was based on the fact that pieces of file found in the Borough Council Chambers at Te Aroha fitted the file in accused bag, and were of the same description. , ' /
' The accused pleaded not guilty, and ’ was cofoihltted to the Supreme 'Court for triad.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1932, Page 5
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