SENSATIONAL AFFAIR

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1920, Page 3

SENSATIONAL AFFAIR

LONDON POLICE RAID

ACCUSED’S CHARACTER

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 16

Major Jarbie, thei Australian 'Assistant l’rovost Marshal, gives Corporal King a most excellent character. He served with the 4th Battalion throughout the war. Apparently he shot at Cooper, believing the police were burglars

MORE PARTICULARS. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) (LONDON, February 16. When the police arrived at 8 Moreton Place they aroused an unmarried woman named Harvey, who, believing

they were burglars, ran -tb the room where King and his wife were sleeping. King picked up a pistol nd ran to the front door to see what was the matter. The police forced the door, and King

warned them unless they showed their authority he would shoot, but Cooper rushed on. King fired. The rest of the detectives then overpowered King and took him to- Gerald Road Police ■Station.

Meanwhile, the man and woman whom the police were really seeking were aroused. The police caught" the

woman and took her to the station with King. The man, however, successfully hid himself in a cupboard in a neighbouring room where lie terrified a woman into silence until the police were gone.

Curiously enough the man did not attempt to escape but returned to his room, barricaded the door and went to sleep again. He was‘taken by the police later in the morning.

Two other members of the gang arrived during the afternoon. Instead of finding their comrades they found the police in .possession and were arrested.

Major Jarvie who communicated to the Police Headquarters his regrets at Cooper’s wound, says King is a far. mer, a teetotaller and a splendid character. 'He is over six feet high He met and married his wife, -while in France.