80 SOVEREIGNS STOLEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 914, 6 March 1930, Page 20

80 SOVEREIGNS STOLEN

STOWAWAY CHARGED Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. John Charles Turbey, alias Davis, a cook, aged 26, plead 3d not guilt3 r in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to a charge of stealing 80 sovereigns, the property of Eraclis Pippos. Turvey ‘was further charged with receiving 64 sovereigns, knowing them to have been dishonesty obtained. Detective McLellan said after accused had arrived back from Australia, escorted by Constable Adams, he interviewed him at the police station. Accused told him that he was pleading guilt}' to the theft. Accused said he had stolen the sovereigns and had changed them for Australian notes at a Wellington bank, and that the £56 in Australian notes found in his possession were notes he had received at the bank in exchange for the gold. Accused said he only had 64 sovereigns, not 80. Witness told him 80 were stolen, and accused replied: “I’m pleading guilty, and I don’t want to get anyone else into trouble.” Accused, continued witness, said he had arrived from Sydney as a stowaway on February 4, and on his arrival he had had no money. He was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.