BURGLARY AT WAIKANAE.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 9 August 1920, Page 3

BURGLARY AT WAIKANAE.

The business premises of Mr A. W. Roberts, of Waikanae, were burglariously entered at about 9 p.m. on Fri_,jt . day, and several articles, including -9 tith - packets of cigarettes, an overcoat, suit \ o ff- case, a watch, keys, chocolates and bisIla . cuits stolen. Entrance was gained by ou . i a narrow pain of glass being broken, cc- through which the thief squeezed his tei : - wo 3'j tlut l afterwards passed the articles Ult out through the same place. The matlie tor was reported to Constable Satheran ! ''-W o" Saturday morning, and this t i c i officer journeyed as far as Paekakariki _. s . jsiii search of his prey. Ho then walked ml j to Paraparauinu, and on passing the j r Domain saw traces that aroused his [ ie ,| suspicions. He went to the pavilion, 3,j I and there located a sixteeii-year-old M . boy named Benjamin Marrah, with the m j stolen articles, also with clothing ~-. . stolen from a lad named Nicholson, a a ! boarder at the Native College at Otaki. j .J [i Marrah admitted that he had taken the 31- j articles, and further stated that he „. I had attempted to rob Mr Roberts' safe, j. which at the time contained well over is •- £IOO. IS | On Saturday night, the lad was ;t .' brought before Mr Frank Bennett, | ~ ' .LP., at Otaki, and charged with the j o I offence. He was remanded till Friday, , n I, bail being allowed in two sureties of i- ' £-50 each. ! I , I