SERIES OF CHARGES

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20264, 5 August 1937, Page 15

SERIES OF CHARGES

YOUNG MEN ARRAIGNED. PLEAB OF GUILTY ENTERED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A series of charges was proceeded with in the Magistrate’s Court to-day before Mr W. F. Stllwell, S.M., in whioh six young men, between 19 and 23, are allegedly concerned with oTfences connected with theft, breaking and entering, and In the case of four of the men of robbery under arms.

Gordon Norrie Taylor, charged with breaking and entering by night with Intent to commit a theft, pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence.

Basil Johnson-Barrett, charged Jointly with Taylor, was also committed for sentence.

Barrett was further charged with receiving stolen tobaoco (three charges), and Maurice Bush with having stolen the tobacco, valued at £4 12s, the property of Frank Boffa. Both pleaded guilty and were committed for sentence.

Barrett and Louis Scott Dunham, charged jointly with robbing Louis Yee of 7s 6d, and being armed with a pistol, pleaded guilty and. were committed for sentence.

Bush, Barrett, and Arthur Frederick Langford, jointly charged with attempting to rob Fon Lee and being armed with a pistol, pleaded guilty and were committeed for sentence.

Langford, charged with the theft of £6, the property of Vernon Kilgour, and with receiving £'3, pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence.

Another man whose name was suppressed was Jointly charged with the theft of £6. He pleaded guilty and was placed on probation for eighteen months.