ATTEMPTED FOXTON BURGLARY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2401, 7 March 1922, Page 2

ATTEMPTED FOXTON BURGLARY.

TWO YOUTHS PLEAD GUIUff. COAIAIITTED FOR SENTENCE. At the Palmerston Police Court yesterday morning, Wm. Brand, aged 18, and Clarence Amos Wood, alias George Smith, aged 17, on remnnd from Fox ton, pleaded guilty \ to having attempted to break and enter the shop of David Walker Robertson, storekeeper, of Foxton, with intent to commit a crime.

Detective-Sergeant Quirke stated that both accused were lately residents of Foxton. Brand had been, (here for three years. Previously he had been at the Weraroa Industrial Farm. Wood had run away from his home at Wanganui about three months ago, and .he had been living with the Maoris. The accused had admitted trying to enter the premises, and had stated that they were disturbed and, becoming af’raid of detection", they ran away. D. W. Robertson, of Foxton, deposed that he left his prernises securely locked on February 10th, . at 10 p.m. The accused were then outside the shop. Next morning, at 7.30 o’clock, he found that an iron grating on one of the windows had been removed, and a pane of was broken. A door had also bet|6 wrenched’open, hut an iron bar had prevented an entrance. Constable O’Donoghue, of Foxton, stated that lie had interviewed the accused, who had made written confessions of the offence. Neither of the accused wished to sav anything. Both were committed to the-Wellington Supreme Court forsent once.