WINDOW-BREAKER

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1931, Page 3

WINDOW-BREAKER

' DOES £2OO DAMAGE. (By Telegraph—Fer Frees Association) WELLINGTON, December 19. Damage estimated at 1 over ’V--'.'. wag caused ivithin a few seconds by v ?;■' a' man who. w-alked along Manners Street, etrihihg the large plate glass James’ Shijth, Ltd., with a piece of iron piping, early this :■ Lili: evening, -‘b -A %‘S.-. ■ .At. a tout' 6. lo o’clock, the man, an L > -elderly relief' worker/ 1 short of stature, V ,began to■ walk 1 along the 'firm’s JVlanV.vners ; Street frontage, striking the windows with) a piece of galvanised -> ' iron water pipe, about seven inches long '. and ah nieli in diameter. Milting each of the big panes once or Oyl Pitwice, lie moved along towards the r ,-y. Cuba-Street side, holing each window % ;,A!ahdAseii'diiig Ibrig tentacle-like cracks across the 1 glass with every blow. »\o': -i,: The man had broken six windows and two show cases when a passer-by i dashed up and snatched the weapon n . b'trom-his hands." i- \% ••K>liee-Sergeati't' ‘Paine ' then' Came up and took the man into custody. V-M /of the windows • liad been' specially for a cotton exhibition, f- "which was v to open there to-day. / The man will appear in the Police Court 'to-morrow morning.