BURGLARY CHARGES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 March 1932, Page 6

BURGLARY CHARGES

MAORIS ADMIT BREAKING AND ENTERING AT TE WHAITI. Two young Maoris who appeared in the Rotorua Magistrate's Court y sterday morning before Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., admitted separate charges of breaking and entering the store of Adam Maclarn at Te Whaiti on ih. night of February 12 and stealing a quant:ty of tobacco, cigarettes, mutches and cigarette papers. The porce stated that a considerable quantity of goods stolen from the store had not yet been accounted for, but the two accused denied any complicity in the larger thefts. The two accused were Charle° Marsh and Ahutina Waitohi. Waitohi was arrested at Te Whaiti or Tuesday by Senior-Sergt. Carroll and Constable Brown, of Rotorua, and Marsh was arrested in Rotorua bj Constable Kelly. , Outhning the charges, the SeniorSergt. said that on the night of Fe'oruary 12 Mr. Maclarn's store at Tc Whaiti had been entered and a qu ntity of goods stolen. Ingress hac been gained by removing nails wh T fastened down one of the windo rs The two men had been seen hang'og about the premises, but when r~t rviewe'd by district constable Macph son had denied any knowledge of -.he burglary. Fmally they had been arrested ° (■ had then admitted breaking into ihe store and stealing quantities of sm- king material, although they had den od any knowledge of oth:r goods to the value of approximately £80 vh". I were still missing from the sirre Both men had treated -the maDer as a jolce and the Senior-S; rgt. sugg.'h. ed to his Worship that a sharp te iv of 'mprisor.ment would probably iV'W more effective than a term of pr > ition. The magistrate sentenc d both accused to six weeks imprisonment.