BURGLARS CAUGHT REDHANDED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8027, 13 January 1906, Page 2

BURGLARS CAUGHT REDHANDED.

ACCUSED BEFORE THE COURT. PUB TBESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, January 11. William Thompson and Percy Smith were brought before Mr It. W. Dyer, S.M., and charged with having broken and entered the tailoring shop of Mr Moycs iu Victoria Street, on January sth. Thompson was also charged with liaving assaulted Constable Armstrong and wilfully damaging a pair of trousers valued .it 255. Smith was also charged with assaulting David McDowell and Edward Bowden. Both aro able bodied men. Thompson had a few scalp wounds covflfed with sticking plaster. Accused pleaded guilty to the minor charges. Sub-Inspector Black explained that about 11 o'clock on the night of the lifth, Constable Armstrong received information that a shop iu Victoria-street was being broken into. On arriving there he saw n man dangling through a window and grabbed him. This man fought and the constable used his baton, Afterwards lie struck a match and looked into the shop and found a man crouching inside. Mr Dyer, in dealing with the minor charges, gave Thompson the full penalty of three months and one month for damages to the trousers.the sentences to ran consecutively, Smith was sentenced to two months with hard labor for each of the assaults, the sentences to ruu consccutiely. Evidence was then given as to the indictable offences. Accused reserved their defence, and wore committed for trial.