THEFT CHARGE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1933, Page 2

THEFT CHARGE

TWO MEN COMMITTED. WELLINGTON, June 14. The story of how a dwellinghou.se in Evans Bay road wa s entered on the King’s Birthday and a quantity of jewellery was stolen was related to Mr E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when,' William George John Durning, labourer, 22, and James Lawrence:)'' Jamiesop Tuitsy-labourer, 23, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the (promises and; stealing jewellery. : '4v- - • '• Richard Edward Metz, manager of the Lambton Quay branch ..of R... Hannah and Co., said that when he leit the house all the doors, and windows with the exception the fanlight,, were securely locked! On his return he found the back door open and the house ransacked. Among the articles missing was about £2O worth of Jewellery.

Detective Campin 6 aid that on June 7 he went with Durning to a house in Aa’o street where he dug up from the garden a bundle containing articles of jewellery. At the detective office Durning made a statement that he and Tiut had broken into Metz’s house and had taken certain jewellery. They later sold some to gold buyers. When interviewed, Tait also admitted the burglary. Detective Campin s aid that there were still certain articles missing, and from bis interviews with the two men he “thought that Durning had taken them. Both the accused pleaded guilty and were committed to the Supreme Court t'oi, sentence. Bail was refused.