A Clever Capture.

Hastings Standard, Issue 424, 13 September 1897, Page 2

A Clever Capture.

TWO BURGLARS ARRESTED. A MURDEROUS IMPLEMENT ANNEXED. (Br Telegraph.) (Per Press Association.) Auckland, This day. Early this morning Detectives Herbert and Bailey made a clever capture of two men who stand chargedjAi breaking and entering the wlMKale grocery store of Jofcn Achescfflias, Elliot-street, with intent to commit a crime. Herbert and Bailey had been shadowing the two men. About twenty minutes past 4 on Sunday morning they saw one man approach the door of Acheschka's wholesale grocery warehouse and the other stand on the corner line. The detectives heard the lock of the door go as if broken and the noise of the door being prized c.pen.

When the men had been at work a few minutes there was a noise of a dray approaching, supposed to have bsen one of the City Council carts, and the men desisted from their operations.

The detectives gave chase. The men ran and the detectives after them. Herbert passed the last man, leaving him to Bailey, and devoted his attention to the front man, keeping on in pursuit. Herbert called on the man to stand or he would fire, pointing his revolver. The man continued to run and Herbert fired, but did not even wing him. The man kept running when the detective gained to within a few yards and again called on him to surrender or he would shoot him. The man stopped and stood at bay with a heavy jemmy. Herbert, covering the man with his revolver, told him to drop the jemmy and he did so. In the meantime Bailey grappled with his man, getting one handcuff on him, and brought to where Herbert and his man were when the detectives handcuffed the two prisoners together. On examining the ground the jemmy was picked up. It is a murderous looking weapon, 20in long and about 7lb weight. It is shaped like a chisel at both ends, and a dark lantern slide beingcon trolled by the thumb in it holdingso that the amount of light is reflected at pleasure. A piece of candle was found in the pocket of one of the men. The prisoners were brought to Acheschka's store, where a padlock was found broken beside the door splintered. One gave his name as Henry Wilmott, and the other first gave the name of Acroyd and afterwards Henry Fraser.