ROBBING A CHINESE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5074, 12 January 1927, Page 2

ROBBING A CHINESE.

LONG ARM OF THE LAW. ARREST AT MORRINSVILLE. Over a year, ago, on the evening of December 12, 1925, t,wo men entered the shop of a Chinese, at Rotorua. One of them, holding a screwdriver in his hand in such a manner as to represent a revolver, told the Celestial to put his hands up. This the affrightened Chinese did. The other man then got a towel and some rope from an adjoining shop, tied the towel round the mouth of the Chinese, and b: und his legs and arms with rope. Then his pockets were gone through and £l5 taken. The bound man was dragged into a back room and left propped up against the wall. Attention was paid to the till and another £l5 extracted from that. The two men, one of whom was wearing motor goggles, went out by the back door, locking it and leaving the Chinese bound and gagged in the back room. The matter was reported to the police.

No arrests were made, and as weeks passed into months it was thought that, the robbery had been added to the. list of unsolved mysteries. But the arm of the law is long. Of late, Detectives Sweeney and Culloty and Constable Jackson, of Morrinsville, have been following up certain clues, and the result was the arrest in Morrinsville of two young men, William Gibson Young, aged 22, and Leonard David Williams, aged 23, on Wednesday last* On Thursday morning the accused appeared in the Morrinsville Court, before. Mr C. M. Guminer, J.P., to answer the charge that on December 12, 1925, at Rotorua, they did rob Tom San Wong Loo of the sum of £3O and at the time of such robbery did use personal violence to the said Tom San *Wong Loo. Accused appeared at Rotorua yesterday. Both pleaded guilty and were committed for sentence to the Supreme Court at Auckland. Both the accused have been residents of Morrinsville f»r some months, and were employed as motor mechanics.