CLOAK FOR CRIME
BURGLAR’S DELUDED FIANCEE
For burglary at three country houses in East Yorkshire, Alfred Wilson Remmer, 42, an engineer, was at East Riding Quarter Sessions at Beverley sentenced to three years’ penal servitude.
Superintendent Huddlestone said that Remmer, who pleaded guilty, had been travelling about country districts on a powerful motor-cycle. together with a young woman, to whom he had represented himself to be in a good position, and to whom he had given an engagement ring. The woman was of good character and family, and while she thought they were touring the countryside looking for a house to live in, Remmer in reality was searching for houses for burglary. He had rented various warehouses iti Hull, where he had stored the stolen goods. Detectives had -ecreted themselves inside one of these, and Remmer came in with more stolen goods late at night, and was then arrested. Remmer had served previous sentences.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 14
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154CLOAK FOR CRIME Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 14
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