SERIES OF CRIMES
£ COMMITTED BY SOLDIERS. LIVELY STORY UNFOLDED IN COURT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, October 30. A lively story was unfolded in the Magistrates’ Court today of the escape of three soldiers from detention' in a military camp, the conversion of two motor-cars, the theft of about 30 gallons of petrol and quantities of foodstuffs and attempts to break into places. James Ernest Arthur Ward, aged 20, Owen Mervyn Howse, 19, and Stanley Thomas Port, 19, pleaded guilty to 12 charges of breaking, entering and theft and attempted breaking and entering of . stores at Pio Pio, Inglewood and New Plymouth. The • value of the goods stolen was about £l3O. They also pleaded guilty to six : summary offences —two of conversion of cars and four thefts of petrol. On the indictable offences, they were ■ committed for sentence and on the . others, convicted and remanded for J sentence till dealt with in the Supreme ( Court.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1942, Page 2
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155SERIES OF CRIMES Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1942, Page 2
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