STOLEN JEWELLERY
TWO COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (Per Press Association, Copyright). WELLINGTON, .September 20. Hoiv the Wellington police, acting on information received from Palmerston North detectives, watched the Chief Post Office, Wellington, for somebody to collect a parcel believed to contain stolen jewellery, was told at the Magistrate’s Court, when Hughie James Trask, aged 27, hawker, and Thomas Charles Edward King, aged 28, wiokerworker, were charged with the theft of gold watches and other jewellery from a dwelling.
Evidence was tendered by a man wbo had been in the lock-up at the same time as the accused. ,of the conversations he overheard between Trask and King. He said he went back voluntarily to the police, after he was discharged, and had not been asked to say anything. He had been shocked at their charaster. He thought they should be put away, because if allowed to go round Palmerston, they would get into' worse trouble. Accused were committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1933, Page 5
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