BURGLAR CAUGHT
ROOM-MATE ALSO SUSPECTED CONSTABLE’S DISCOVERY Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. Lawrence Desmond Tanner, aged 20, and George Albert Proudfoot, aged 23, room-mates, were jointly charged with breaking and entering a shop and stealing cigarette tobacco worth £ 5 8s 4d and Tanner was charged with breaking and entering two business premises with intent to steal and with being found without lawful excuse in possession of housebreaking instruments. The charges arose out of Tanner’s being at night inside the door of the York Chambers, Manners Street, by a constable, who noticed it open. Tanner pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. He said Proudfoot had never actually assisted in the offences. Proudfoot. who pleaded not guilty, was committed for trial.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 789, 9 October 1929, Page 11
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119BURGLAR CAUGHT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 789, 9 October 1929, Page 11
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