POWELKA AT PALMERSTON
EIRfeT CHARCE DISMISSED. " YOU'RE A HERO." By Telegraph—Press Associa-tion. Palmerston North, April 29. Powelka arrived at Palmerston North at mid-day to-day from Wellington. There was a large crowd to meet him and another equally large at the courthouse. Accused, when he alighted from the train, was handcuffed (between two policemen, and was closely attended by a. warder and other members of the police force.
As he walked along the platform one of the crowd called out: " You're a hero, Powelka," a remark which the prisoner acknowledged with a smile. Powelka appeared before the Court at noon on a cbarge of breaking and entering a butcher's shop at Terrace End in July last and taking a steel valued at 10s'fid. Other charges will follow.
The case was dismissed on the grounds that the period between the date of the theft—July 1000 and February l'JOi) —when the steel was found in Powelka's possession, was too Jong to require accused to account for it.
Accused is now before the Court on a charge of breaking and entering and theft from the 'premises of Miss Mackay, dressmaker. Tie will also he charged with arson at the same premises.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 377, 30 April 1910, Page 5
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197POWELKA AT PALMERSTON Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 377, 30 April 1910, Page 5
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