CAUGHT IN AN ATTIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1834, 1 June 1918, Page 1

CAUGHT IN AN ATTIC.

TWO DESERTERS ARRESTED,

Two military deserters from camp named Patrick Harry Paintin and William George Price, were arrested at the house of the latter in Victoria Street, Christ church, at a very early hour on Sunday morning last, under exceptional circumstances. Paintin and Price had proved themselves on previdus occasions to he somewhat « desperate characters. Once they jumped out of a topstorey window to avoid the police, who were waiting in the house below. On the second occasion one of them escaped while handcuffed, taking the handcuffs with him. It was therefore decided to lake no chances on this occasion. The police surrounded the house, and on being refused admission, pushed their way in, an old lady going on in front and locking the doors as she went on ahead. The police forced the doors from room to. room until they reached an attic at the top of the house, it was found impossible at lirst to move a small i trap-door, and it was realised that | someone was sitting on it. A .con- | stable wasi hoisted up. on to the 3 shoulders of his comrades, and | thence up into the attic, where both | the deserters were. Little trouble was experienced in bringing the men both down into the lower room. Before six o’clock they were ip the cell at the police station, and in due course were handed over to the military authorities. *■