THIEF’S CONFESSION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 30, 28 April 1927, Page 9

THIEF’S CONFESSION

“IN DESPERATE STRAITS” TOOK £46 WORTH OF TIN William Caple, who was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of stealing six ingots of tin, valued at £l2, from the warehouse of Alexander Harvey and Sons, has made a statement to the police in which he confesses having entered the warehouse on three previous occasions and stolen in all 23 ingots, valued at £46. According to Caple’s story he was working at Harvey’s up till December 10 of last year, when he was put off owing to the slackness of the firm’s business. He had keys of the premises, which he had found while working there. He found it practically impossible to get work. “About the end of January, being practically in desperate straits, I went to Harvey’s about 2 a.m., climbed the roof and gained an entrance into the rear portion of the premises,” his story continues. “1 took six ingots of tin and concealed them in an empty section. , . . , Arthur Griffin, a taxi driver who has been committed for trial, is alleged to have taken the tin and given Caple £6 to it. .. Caple again visited Harveys on the night of February 30, March 15, and March 19, when he was caught redhanded by Constable Collins A member of the firm of Alexandei Harvey and Sons told Mr. E. C. Cutten, S M in the Police Court this afternoon, tliat’on stock-taking they found they were 70 ingots (about 2 h tons) short. Caple pleaded guilty to all four charges, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.