THE ERRING CONSTABLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 221, 6 February 1913, Page 2

THE ERRING CONSTABLE.

j ADMITS UTS THEFTS. | Per Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. Tlie, Magistrate's Court was crowded to-day. when Charles Alfred Remmers, an ex-eonstalile, was charged with a scries of thefts. The first charge taken was that of robbery from the premises of Ross, jeweller, the value of the stolen articles being estimated at £l4O. Mary Ledger, boarding-houso keeper, gave evidence that on January 22 accused left an overcoat at her place. On the 2!)tli she, with one of the boarders, examined the pockets of the coat ahd found wrapped in some silk handkerchiefs a large number of articles of jewellery. She at once sent for a detective. Detective Andrews gave evidence that i when he charged accused with stealing jewellery he made no reply. After Remmers had been before the Court he told witness he had broken Ross' window at 3 a.m. on January 22 and taken the jewellery, lie committed the offence single-handed and on the spur of | the moment, because he owed some j money to a. sister in England and had , promised to bring her and his mother out to New Zealand. He had watched the constable on the adjoining beat until satisfied he was far enough away not to hear him. In addition to the jewellery found in the overcoat, about fifty tie-pins were discovered floating i". a cardboard box in the harbor. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to t.lie Supreme Court for sentence. Remmers nlso pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a bat from Wallace's, and cutlery from Radford's. Tn the I other cases he elected to be tried by a jury. When formally charged accused 1 bad nothing to say, and was committed i for sentence.