BURGLARY AT CARTERTON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 October 1913, Page 5

BURGLARY AT CARTERTON.

ACCUSED PLEADS GUILTY.

Our, Own Correspondent

CARTERTON, Last Night. •;..:. The police .court ttf-day was occupied; in ?ing [and'" in Carterton on the evening osyOcfc<* -ber 6, a^id. one of attempting : to vbr.eak and'"enter.,, \; '' .'' V ~ _,.; t ..-.' v,; aiitThe. accused witts an >young man named John Hugh Johansson,, alias Fijbderjpk Hunter, iwihd, on October 4th, was arrested by the vQarterton police for drunkenness, and convicted and discharged, on the 6th. He had then in his, possession three & c(oor keys, a small screw-driver, and Borne silver. /

, Ihiring the late hours of the eren,ing of the,:6th of O'ptober, or the early hours of the folio wing morning, some person attempted to. gain an entrance to the Bank of New Zealand by mean,* of a key which was wrenched off near jtbe end in the lock.

The window off Mr Baillie's boot shop was broken near the lock, an entrance gained, and a pair of boots taken. '

A window of Mr Hill's fruit shop was similarly treated, and pome small goods taken out ctf the window in the front, and found later in' a bucket outside. , Pieces of the broken glass were, forwarded to the Police Finger-print Department, and the prints were \swbfeequently identified as those of accused'.

When approached on the morning after the occurrence by the police, accused said; he had thrown the keys away, and y when asked to locate the spot, changed hi? tale to -one ot having lost.them." He was then arV rested and charged with the offence at Hill's, and replied that V'he did not, think he would doi anything like that." .■.■'".

When told by Detective-Sergeant Mcllveney that his finger-prints corresponded with, those on gloss, accused said it was all up then, and subsequently volunteered a statement, admitting his guilt, and directing the police where to find the stolen pair of hoots.

.A search "was made for the missing goods, hut they were gone. Later in the day, however, the stolen property was returned to the police stationi by someone who had found them hanging in a tree where gctused had placed them. "A good deal of evidence was called, Detective-Sergeant Mcllveney prosecuting, accused being undefended. After having fqrnially pleaded guilty, accused ,was remanded to the Supreme Court Jor sentence.