GIRL’S FLAT RAIDED
FURNITURE AND CLOTHING STOLEN. CURIOUS EXPLANATION BY ACCUSED. AUCKLAND, June 12. Arrested last evening on a charge of breaking and entering the dwelling of Fay Cooper and stealing furniture, bedding. and clothing of a total value of £75, Charles Henry Frederick Pillow, aged 22, a motor mechanic, appeared to-dav in the Police Court. Detective Sergeant Kelly obtained a remand. In asking for bail Pillow said he did not break and enter the flat. “ Anyway, she owed me. a debt of £10,” said the accused. “As soon as I saw in the paper yesterday that it was reported as a burglary I went straight and saw a solicitor about it.” Mr Kelly: He thinks one may go in off the street and take other people’s property. Bail in the sum of £lOO was allowed.
—During the last financial year the British Government spent some £7,000,000 in helping to finance schemes for providing work for the unemployed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 22
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158GIRL’S FLAT RAIDED Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 22
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