CHARGES ADMITTED
BREAKING, ENTERING AND THEFT. A YOUTH'S ESCAPADES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 6. Arrested in possession of a loaded revolver which, according to police evidence, he proposed to fire into the air to frighten anyone in the event of his being disturbed during his escapades, Vernon Williamson, radio mechanic, aged 19, appeared before Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court. He admitted 14 charges of attempted and actual breaking and entering and theft, receiving stolen property, and procuring a revolver without a permit. It was alleged that the burglaries and attempted burglaries occurred in seven shops and three baches in New Lynn. Titirangi, Green Bay, Huia, and Oratia, in the Waitakene district, between April 6 and September 11, and that £45 6s 3d worth of goods and money was involved. On 12 indictable charges accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. On two summary counts he was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within a year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1938, Page 9
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