WAREHOUSES ROBBED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 585, 11 February 1929, Page 13

WAREHOUSES ROBBED

YOUNG MEN ON TRIAL

WOMAN BUYS MATERIAL

Suspected of breaking into city warehouses and stealing material's and soft goods, two young men stoo-d their trial in the Supreme Court this morning before Mr. Justice Blair and a jury. The prisoners were Bertie John Christian, labourer, aged -7, and Kenneth Malcolm McDonald, waterside worker. 32. The men Mere conjointly charged with breaking into the warehouse of Jack Robinson, Wellesley Street, on December 31, and removing serge valued at £57. Christian was further charged with breaking into Sargood, Son and Ewen’s warehouse on the evening of October 22 and stealing soft goods of a total value of £ SO. Alternative counts of theft and receiving were laid against both men. Mr. V. X. Hubble prosecuted for the Crown and Mr. Mackay appeared for Christian and Mr. Newbery for McDonald. In evidence Robinson said that on the morning of December 11 he found that a skylight had been broken in his factory and a roll and a-half of serge material stolen. How two men brought a bundle of serge to her boarding-house in Vincent Street one morning about December 10 or 11 was told by the proprietress. She bought a piece, which the detectives later took possession of. Subsequently witness selected Christian at an identification parade as one of the vendors of the serge. ( Proceeding.!