BURGLAR CAPTURED
Farmer’s House Entered
SCUFFLE WITH INTRUDER By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, January 8. A graphic story of a funner’s tight with a burglar was told before the magistrate Mr. 11. A. Young, this morning, when Daniel Ferguson, a labourer, aged 51, was charged with breaking and entering the house of Benjamin Joseph Leadbetter in the Main South Road, Styx, with intent to commit a crime. Ferguson was also charged with breaking and entering and theft at a warehouse owned by A. Blackler, of Rangiora, on December 28. Accused pleaded guilty to breaking into the house at Styx and was committed for sentence. On the other charge he was committed for trial. Leadbetter said that when lie was awakened by his wife he went into the pantry and saw a man examining the shelves. “I grabbed him and we both fell down on the floor,’’ he said. “Later my son arrived and the man got away again, but I caught him in a field, when he sprang at me with what looked like a knife in his hand. Later the police arrived.”
A. Blackler, licensee of the Plough Inn, Rangiora, described the theft of liquor from his store. He said that the accused had beeu in his hotel on December 28.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 89, 9 January 1935, Page 2
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211BURGLAR CAPTURED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 89, 9 January 1935, Page 2
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