HOUSE ROBBED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 32, 1 November 1937, Page 6

HOUSE ROBBED

Two Young Men Charged at Waipukurau POLICE'S EASY CAPTURE

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

WAIPUKURAU, This Day. Prompt action by Constable D. H. Sutton, of Waipukurau, resulted in the arrest at about 9.15 last night of two young men, John Francis Samuel Keen and Alexander Walter Kilpatrick, both of Wellington, who were charged this morning before Justices of the Peace with breaking and entering the house of Mr Frederick Hewitt, Waipukurau, and stealing a gold watch and overcoat, a pair of boots, a felt hat, a bracelet, a tie and 6/6 in cash, to a total value of £28 16/6. Constable Sutton asked that the two accused be remanded to appear at the Waipukurau Court on Monday next. The occupants of the house left home at 10 a.m. and did not return until 2.45 p.m. when they found that the lock on the back door had been broken. Constable Sutton was immediately summoned. A neighbour, Mr R. A. Kyle, recalled that two men had called at his place earlier in the day asking for food. Neither had at that time been wearing a hat or overcoat. His son had later observed the same two men walking southward towards Dannevirke and one of them had then been wearing an overcoat. Constable Sutton and Mr Kyle set out in pursuit and were not far past the Sanatorium hill when two men on the road hailed them and asked for a lift. The motorists were only too pleased to comply and the young men were easily taken into custody.