GAME NEMESIS

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 7

GAME NEMESIS

■ . » ■ ■■• :;■) Burglar Sends Back | The Goods { (From "NJZ. Truth's" "Wellington R«P>> The same faint heart which *;• never won fair lady, likewise never mad* a successful criminal. . WITH which trite observation ene - wonders at the psychology of e :;.V man, coldly sober, who, near the witch- ' ing hour helps to burgle a Jeweller*fJ, - shop, gets saiely away with the loot,, holds it for a month and then forwards it by registered post to the city's chief detective. . ; : Cold feet* or remorse for file complicity In the crime was evidently ex- ; . perienced by Charles Applebee, a eea- i man of ■Wellington who, with his ac- ;; complice, George McDonald, a etBW- : ;■ ard, were last week committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a' ; charge of theft. ■:■-■:■ :^ They had made their appearance in the Magistrate's Court and pleaded: ;:; guilty. In April last, both the ftocusod, , who were out of work at the time, be- ;v dame acquainted at the British, and - Foreign Sailors' Society. ■■"'■. • : -McDonald suggested to Applebee that he had a job for him and about 11-30 in the evening started to put the >Z% "Job" into effect. •..•'■ -'■-^v^i Calling at Applebee's place of res^v^ derice, they collected, a pinch, fcar and /^ proceeded to the premises of Clark "^ and Morris, jewellers, in Cuba Street' 'ss■ There, while Applehee .watehedVi-tog\||! give the signal in case of approaflfc;''^ McDonald, with the pinch bar, forpedSp| the back door of the shop. /4^^*f|| The pinch bar was dropped lntoVspSJ dust-bin at the rear of the prem!seji^|g wften' they, left the building, and dpwiiSM near the water-front they divided tlwfcS^ spoils, Applebee dropping tbo hoxos I *^ which bad contained the rings Into ttoe£ss harbor.' »,. . -.- ,'■■>: ..■■ ■. "... V'tM^ Police investigations whioh ,fol- v >: lowed threw little light on to the M robbery^ until one morning, to- 5; wands the end of last month. Chief Detective Ward received a rather ; curious epistle through the post* -V-.i X and almost immediately following >/ it, came a package of jewßllery. ;■ S Appiefoee, suffering remorsa for hia;- ; ;i3 deed, had returned his portion of thes;^ spoils; but In penning his epistle : tOiBM mittlng his complicity, sent the lettei^jl^ ■anonymously. •. ' ■ • ■ •.■ 'V. v?:t ; f^iSi With this curious document to sO:Gn0?B+ the detective staff soon got busy aridWi^ ultimately detectives Kane anep'*^ Hodges cleared the whole matter up^t/^ i^