Suspect Arrested In Recent Safe Blowing Case
Within a few days of the dramatic disappearance of a fast driven car from Mr Watty Wilson’s Matawhero Hotel with the hotel safe as • cargo, Gisborne police have made an arrest at Te Kaha. Following the recovery of a small green car near the Owdia stream, a labourer, Douglas Wright, of Auckland, aged 37, was brought before Mr A. H. Cato, J.P., at Te Kaha and remanded to the Gisborne Magistrate’s Court on a charge of breaking and entering the Royal Oak Hotel oh December 28 and with the theft of a safe and £B4O. Acting on telephoned information from Constable McCurragh, Detec-tive-Sergeant R. H. Waterson and Detective T. Sneddon made a hurried trip up the East Coast and arrested Wright.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 12, 13 January 1948, Page 5
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128Suspect Arrested In Recent Safe Blowing Case Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 12, 13 January 1948, Page 5
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