JUVENILE BURGLARS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2595, 19 June 1923, Page 3

JUVENILE BURGLARS.

OPERATE IN AUCKLAND.

Auckland, Last Night. At the Police Court, Frederick Linton, aged 18 years, and Robert Frederick Edwin Ellis, aged 21, admitted jointly four charges of breaking and entering in various parts of the city. From a Parnell dwelling they stole jewellery valued at £12!), from a Grafton residen- < o jewellery worth £SO from a Grey Lynn dwelling a suit and jewellery valued at £lB and from a city fruit auctioneers, stamps, pencils etc. Accused were committed for .sentence. Linton was further charged with breaking and entering the dwelling of T. W. Rennie, of Christchurch, on March 25, and stealing £2OO in money, lie was remanded to appeal - in Christchurch on June 27. Charges of having received some of the stolen property in the above cases were preferred against Percy George Fuge, aged lfi years, and Stanley Reginald Harvey, aged 21 years. Fuge pleaded not guilty to receiving jewellery valued at £IOO and was committed for trial. Harvey pleaded guilty to receiving a gold watch anti lob and was sentenced to two months at Paparuu prison, Christchurch. On a charge of having obtained £3 3/fi by false pretences at Greymouth, Harvey was remanded to Greymouth, to appear on June 27. Athol Courtney Forbes, aged 30 years, pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence, on charges that, having received £3O from the Auckland Carnival Committee, he failed to pay it to his employers, Dixieland Ltd., cabaret proprietors, and also to having stolen £43 6/11 and £9 4/6 from his employers.