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JEWELLERY SHOP .RAIDED IN EARLY MORNING, MAN CAUGHT & SENTENCED IN LEVIN. _ \ (By Telegraph—Press. Association.) LEVIN, This Day. In the early hours of Sunday morning a plate glass window in Worsfold’s jewellery shop was smashed and three men’s wristlet wristlet watches and a pearl necklace were removed. A nearby resident, hearing the crash of plate glass, rang the Telephone Exchange and the police were informed. A man was arrested a quarter of an hour later with the missing articles in his possession. Charged this morning with the theft, Leo Oswarld Buttle, a labourer aged 39, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. On charges of converting a bicycle at Wanganui and wilfully breaking a shop window in Levin, he was convicted and discharged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1939, Page 6
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130SMASH & GRAB Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1939, Page 6
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