BURGLARY ADMITTED
COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE FIVE THEFT CHARGES A young man of 22, William Reece Campbell, who pleaded guilty at the Police Court this morning to breaking into Alexander Costello’s tailor shop and sealing two suits valued at £9, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Campbell also pleaded guilty to five other charges of theft. Alexander Costello said that on opening his shop on June 8 he found the safe containing about £SO in cash had been moved from the shop to a back room, but was intact, but two suits were missing. Constable Wakelin, who arrested Campbell, told Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., how he had found the young man trying to pawn a suit in a shop in Victoria Street. Asked where he obtained the clothing Campbell said he bought it from a well-known emporium. At the detective office he made a statement admitting the burglary; this statement also embodied admission of the other five offences.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 72, 16 June 1927, Page 11
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160BURGLARY ADMITTED Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 72, 16 June 1927, Page 11
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