A STATE OF ALARM.
RECENT SENSATIONS AT PALMERSTON. / POLICE REINFORCEMENTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ; Palmerston North, April 6. Palmerstoii is stili in a. ferment. Women are coming in from outlying houses to stay with friends in town, and town householders are kept in a. coast ant state of. alarm by their women-folk. .The matter is complicated by tho fact that other people are apparently taking advantage of the Powelka scare.
The police have been doing excellent work iin the search, and the patrol have had a rough time during the past fortnight sinco the first rumours of Poweljc&'s . presence at Longbura on. Easter Saturday, wMo the falso alarms ' that they have received from excited individuals have given many a fruitless search. Recent sensational incidents, according tp the "Manawaitn . Daily Times," include:— . The breaking insto a Longburn store ' on Easter Saturday. The robbery under arms al Kendall's on Saturday night last. The raiding of food at a residence in - Broad 'Street on Monday night. The sensations in palmerston North ; last night, which include entrance'into a shop in the town, from which detonators were taken, and to a store close at" hand, where fire afterwards revealed itself.
Police reinforcements have arrived from. Taranaki, Wanganui, and other centres, and more will arrive to-morrow. • The area to be patrolled is eo large .that 'a fugitive might escape foT many weeks, but systematic eeareh is to be made by day.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 785, 7 April 1910, Page 5
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234A STATE OF ALARM. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 785, 7 April 1910, Page 5
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