SUSPECTS ARRESTS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1929, Page 6

SUSPECTS ARRESTS

MAIL-BAG FIND IN GARAGE.

LONDON, June 29,

A thrilling story of suspects driving their motor-car head-on into two cars containing officers of the Scotland Yard Flying Squad was related at North London Police Court yesterday. Five men were charged before Mr Dummeit with being suspected persons loitering with intent to commit a felony in Southgate-road, N., and with having housebreaking implements by night without lawful excuse. Their names were:

' Albert Paine, aged 34, a homeless carman; George Price, 38, a labourer, of New North-road, Hoxton, N,; William Baldock, 32 a pianoforte finisher, of Allerton-street, Hoxton, N.; Danial Lawrence, 29, a labourer, of Dorches-tt{(r-stredt, Hoxton, and William Prince, 26, a homeless .•lbourer.

HACKSAWS AND JEMMIES

A large number of tools, including hacksaws and jemmies, were produced by the police. Detective-Sergeant Law, of Scotland Yard, said that at 4.35 a.m. that day he was patrolling in a police car, accompanied by Detective-Sergeant /McPherson in another police car, <’ in Southgate-road when he saw the .five men talking outside a public-house. Price and Baldock walked up tlie road and examined the door of a tobacconist’s shop, and after they had rejoined the others Prince, Lawrence and Paine also went and looked at the door. The men went to a coffee stall near Balls Pond-road, Islington, N.,and after they had some refreshments Prince left the others. ,

He was followed by Sergeant McPherson and other detectives in :a car, and later he returned driving a big car, in which he picked up the other four men. Together they went to a shop farther up the road.

POLICE CAR SMASHED “I then saw that their car was driving rapidly towards use,” said -Sergeant Law. “I shouted, ‘We are police officers’ and displayed the police sign on the front of the car. Prince then drove his car straight into my car, smashing the front of it and buckling one of the front wheels. The iiripact threw us to the side of the road. Prince swerved on to the pavement and then drove the car into a head-on collision with the other police car.”

Mr Dummett: Had you put your car across the road? —No.

Could Prince have passed you withput colliding ?f-Yes; • The two cars remained locked and the five men jumped out and ran away. They were are rested after a fierce struggle. Prince asid: “If we had gone the other way we should have done you. You cannot blame u s for having a go.”

•In the -car were found two jemmies, a wrench, a saw, a lock iron, and some bright ’ •

MAIL-BAG IN GARAGE

Sergeant Law produced a parcel post mail-bag and a small wooden 1 safe carrier, which, he said, he found in a; lockup garage at Stoke, Newington, N., to which Prince had been followed. Prince: He drove straight into me. ' ’’'■•■-hi :

Sergeant Law said it was not, so. The men were remanded in ous tody. ,