FALSE FIRE ALARMS.
POLICE MAKE QUICK ARREST. (PEESS ASSOCIATION TILEGSAK.) AUCKLAND, November 22. The police set a net i n the city , and suburbs last night to catch a man. who on Tuesday night gave four false fire alarms and on Thursday night ten. Policemen in plain clothes watched the fire-alarm boxes all over the city and at 8 o'clock Constable McElhinney, hiding behind tombstones m a-monu-mental mason's yawl, saw a nian walk down Symonds street ? and as he passed a fire-alarm box raise his hand and break the glass. The constable promptly arrested him. _ , . This morning, Vincent Criehton, aged 26/ a labourer, Charged with wilful damage of an alarm-box and giving a wilful false alarm, was remanded m oustody, the police saying that he had been identified on another charge. At defending counsel's suggestion, the Magistrate said that CSighton wcwld be medically examined*
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 13
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144FALSE FIRE ALARMS. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 13
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