ALLEGED THEFTS AT THE SEASIDE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2549, 1 March 1923, Page 2

ALLEGED THEFTS AT THE SEASIDE.

YOUNG MAN ARRESTED AND REMANDED. As a result of complaints received by the local police on the 27th ult. of houses having been broken into at Manawatu Heads, Constables Owen and O’Donnoghue made investigations and after a search in l lie sand hills certain footprints were discovered which went in the direction of Rangitikei. These were lost in the drift sand hut the search was continued towards the Rangitikei River but no further traces could be found, but later that evening a young man was arrested near FoxLm.

Yesterday morning at the local police court, before Mr D. W. Robertson, J.P., a youth named David McPherson Stuart, who is a stranger to this district, was charged with breaking and entering and theft from the house occupied by G. E. Johnson at Manawatu Heads.

Constable Owen applied for a remand lo Palmerston North on Monday next where accused will appear before the Stipendiary Magistrate. The remand was granted. To-day the same accused was further charged before Mr D. W. Robertson, .T.P., with (1) on ‘2sth February, breaking and entering the dwelling-house of one Tuna Roiri, at llie Manawatu Heads, with intent to commit a crime therein; (2) on 27th February, did steal from the dwelling of: Arthur Kenyon, at the Manawatu Heads, the sum of £4 3s 9d; and (3) on the 27th February, at Foxton, did break and enter the dwelling of R. Moore and steal a quantity of old clothes. On these charges he was also remanded.