HOUSE BROKEN INTO

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 12

HOUSE BROKEN INTO

MAORI CAUGHT YESTERDAY

In the early hours of yesterday morning Erie-T. Frowde, who lives at 28, Burnham street, Seatoun, was awakened by his wii'e. aud he saw a man in his room crouching at the foot of the bed. Mr. T'rowde got out of bod, but the man got away through the bathroom window. However, Detective .. P. Kearney and Constable Henry made some inquiries, and in the afternoon they arrested a Maori, John Wilson, living in a bach next door. Wilson, alias Paurau Henare, whose ago is 37, came before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court this morning, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of having broken and entered Mr. Frowd 's house and stolen a watch and chain, purse, and other articles, valued at £6 15s.

Detective Kearney said that when he interviewed the accused in company with Constable Henry, Wilson at first denied, having entered the house. A search in the bach, however, resulted in some of the missing property being recovered, and Wilson then admitted having, gone into the house next door.

Asked by the Magistrate if ho wished to say anything, Wilson, fromthe dock, said he was going to ask whether he could be left Off. lie was sorry for "what he had done. Had he not been under the influence of liquor he would not have gone' into the house.

Wilson pleaded guilty, and with tears running down his face he signed the formal documents. Ho was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.