THEFT ADMITTED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 417, 29 December 1932, Page 4

THEFT ADMITTED

McGILL AND SON'S WINE AND SPIRIT STORE ENTERED i MAN CHARGED FOR OFFENf On remand from Tuesday, J Joseph Herbert Rush appeared bel Messrs W. L. Ricliards and R. B.5 | bitt, Justices of the Peace, attbel torua Magistrate's Court yestffi morning charged with breakingi entering the premises of P. & • Gill and Son, wine and spirits chants, on Monday morning j stealing goods valued at 19/6. ' accused pleaded guilty to the cfe and was not represented by coue Senior-Sergeant J. Carroll condt the case for the police. The first witness called, ^ Walter McGill, in answer to queby Senior-Sergeant Carroll said 1 wdien he left the premises on ® mas Day everything was securelf' ed as usual. Following informatioi ceived he went to the store atlj on Monday morning and foun^ a front window had been brokei1 that a ladder kept at the side w building was standing up agaii$ front of the building. On vestigation he discovered that a k of Schnapps and a half-bo® whisky were missing. Althov had known accused for sonie t Rush had no authority to entef premises. v,.j Bertram James Henderson sa"1 'he had know accused for so®e and had been speaking to hi® 03 corner of Arawa and T0'3! Streets at ahout 4.40 o'clock^ day morning, At this timo B®peared perf ectly sober and he & notice any damage to McGiBs dow. The accused was aloneTracecf by Bloodstains Constable A. Shilton said he'" f ormed of the theft and inspeC'3 building at 8.30 a.m. He fou® ' ' one of the front windows bai broken and that there were ^ stains on the glass scatterett ■ j the floor and on cases in tl®^ roorn. A ladder had been ing against the broken also f ound blood-stains on path and traced these in a direction along Arawa Streek^B p.m. on the same day be accused at a house on tbe 0'11 3K Roadi Rush first denied B but later admitted the offeD JK said that he broke the winB^ Jk Kruschen Salts bottle which jmt duced. A half bottle of whisk^^K schnapps bottle were also P1 and on these bloodstains ffeV|jR ent. The little finger of accuse^^B 'hand was also cut, and Rush * that he had cut it while clear^^^K the broken glass from dow. Rush Was sober but shofl of having been drinking. _ ■ Aslced if he had •Rush replied in the negafive ,«| committed to the next sittu1® ' H Supre'me Court in Aucklau^^^B