ARRESTED AT DUNEDIN
BELIEVED NOTORIOUS SAFE BREAKER.
\liy Telegraph—Per Press Association.!
DUNEDIN, Dec. 19
On Tuesday evening, a man, who now awaits trial, attracted the attention of the police. They produced a fairly good circumstantial case against him. A close watch was kept on l:is movements, day and night, and early this- morning, he was accosted in the yards of City premises by a constable, who was not satisfied by the explanation of his presence there. He was taken into custody. The detectives continued their enquiries, and, as a result, the prisoner will appear before the City Police Court next Monday morning to answer a. series of six charges, which cover all the crimes of breaking and • entering and dieft that have been reported in respect to local offioeis and shops during the past few weeks.
ft is also reported, by the police, that the offences of safe breaking reported from Christchurch, have all been accounted for, with the ex. option of one. The man arrested is a native* of Glasgbw. He came to this country a'bout four years ago. lip till about six or seven weeks ago, he was engaged as a coal miner in one of the West Coast mines, which should not prove a bad training ground for ono who is interested in the use of explosives. This arrest brings to an end a particular system of investigation and close watching which the Police department was compelled to adopt in order to put a period to the activities of a safe breaker.
One of the special steps taken y, as the distribution over the city and suburbs of a strong company of plainclothes men, whoso duty it was to watch on all midnight and early morning prowlers whose appearance gave rise to the slightest suspicion. As the result of the vigilance of these officers and of the literal manner in which their instructions were carried out, a few harmless householders making a late way homeward were accosted and asked to give an account of themselves, or of the contents of any hag they might, he carrying.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1929, Page 6
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