MASTERTON BURGLARIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4829, 19 September 1894, Page 3

MASTERTON BURGLARIES.

/?. proeker Before the Court j {tjp!hoon to-day* Ilobert Cracker, ', ciiarged with stealing goods valued at £l3 fiom tho store of Wong Yeo, on tho 9th inst, was brought before <» -Jfcssrs W H, Bcctham and J, Bute[t mont, J P's, at Mastorton. ) Soigtont McArdle 'appeared for 1 tlid piosecution, and informed tho Bonch of the nature of the case, tho ' nt tides found secreted about the premises of the accused, and llio _, —_.. tlatoof the lobboiy. Wong Yee, sworn (in Chincso /#(slnon),<itnted he was a storekeeper, residing in Mnsterton, and rememtoied tho night of Saturday tho Bth, nhon ho closed his shop about eleven oclock,Wturniug at a quarter past ono on Tmnday morning, when ho found the doors open and the biokon, also noticed a quantity of goods had been taken, including cigars,' cigarottes, razors, nndfabout a pound's worth of small change from the till, llemein- ■»«. ./Wed being with tho Sergeant and a constable on Monday the lOth.where they seatched the house of the accused. Recognised asmall handbag (produced) as that found under the raattrass of accused's bed. Also F noticed the police extract eleven boxes of cigarettes from a hole in the wall abovo tlio bed, along withn considoiablo quantity of groceries, The cigaiettcs, tobacco, boxes of cigars, mors, etc., identified as hoing.'tho same which were stolen from his shop on tho night in question, Did not exactly know the accused, though he had seen him coino to the shop once or twice. Ho had .ifflpt given accused permission to take "*"fl|e articles, Tliis; closed' the enso for tho prosecution and the Court adjourned till 2 o'clock.