SACRAMENTAL WINE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 1 February 1912, Page 7

SACRAMENTAL WINE

THEFTS FROM CHURCHES. Palmerstou, January 29. The sequel to the recent cases that were reported ofsomeone having'btokijTi into two churches and' stolen,some wine was, enacted at the police. Court; this morning; when two youths-r-Charles Eri« Pearson and Frederick McSherry—were charged with having entered the Mission Hall, in Main street, and St. Paul's Methodist Church, in Broad street,'and stolen from the former six bottles of Penfold's wine and a .bottle of sacramental wine from the latter. Pearson pleaded not guilty to the charge of stealing half a bottle of wine, while McSherry pleaded guilty. McSherry stated that they tried one door of St. Paul's Methodist* Church and found it locked. They then tried another, which they found open, and went Iji and took the wine. Witness took it himself, and it was at his suggestion that they went into the church. Pearson stated that McSherry had taken wine from a church previously. In regard to the charge of taking' six bottles of wine from the Mission Hall, McSherry pleaded guilty to taking two bottles, but stated that Pearson took four of them. Pearson was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence on Saturday. McSherry is to be placed in an industrial school. Leonard Harold Robinson was also charged with having received three bottles, of wine knowing the same to have been stolen. Evidence was given by McSherry to the effect that defendant had had a drink of the wine that had been taken, from the church. Accused was ordered to come up for sentence on Saturday.