SEQUEL TO ROBBERY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 267, 1 February 1928, Page 15

SEQUEL TO ROBBERY

DISTRIBUTION OF PROCEEDS DEALER’S APPLICATION An unusual application to determine who should receive a sum of money found in possession of an accused person, came before Mr. F. K. Hunt, fc.M., at the Police Court this morning. Chief Detective Hammond made the application and said the money, amounting to £9 7s 7d, was found on Cecil Mark Brown, who was at present serving a sentence of two years’ imprisonment -for theft. Brown robbed a house at Takapuna, and afterwards pledged a saxaphone with Emanuel Kissin for £lO, and another article he sold to Charles George Wise for £3. Brown was arrested two hours later, and admitted that the money in his possession was the proceeds of the sales, but he asked that it be given to his wife. From the box. Brown denied that he made this admission. He said the money was his own and was part of a sum of £l4 he had received for work done. The Magistrate: Well, what did you want to rob a house for? You don’t expect me to believe you, do you? Brown could not recall the mime of the land agent from whom he got the money. The Magistrate ordered that the money be divided between Messrs Kissin and Wise, in the proportion of £lO to £3.