CHASED 700 MILES
TWO YOUNG .CRIMINALS. (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 22. Two brothers, William Noel Cole, 24, mechanic; Bernard Charles Cole, 26, labourer, who wore arrested by a detective on October 10, after the detectives bad fired shots, appealed at the Police Court to-day.. They pleaded guilty to numerous charges of breaking, entering and theit, including a burglary at the lyunieu Post Office, from which they removed a safe which thev later blew open, and secuied money, stamps and postal notes worth £lO2.
Chief Detective Hammond su'd that both had been in trouble, and in the Borstal before. They had set out in a sy.stemafufYareer of crime, in a stiffen' car, and had been thieving all over the district. Detectives chased them for 700 miles before the arrest. Magistrate Hunt sentenced them to a year’s hard labour, and comm it t < them for sentence on the indictable charges,
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1931, Page 2
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