GUN POINT DRAMA

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 December 1931, Page 2

GUN POINT DRAMA

YOUNG CONSTABLE HOLDS THREE MEN WITH REVOLVER. SAFE-BREAKERS CAUGHT. SYDNEY, Monday. Pluckily tackling three safebreakers in the darkness of a Darlipghurst building without knowing whether they were armed, a young constable held his men at revolver point until jwireless patrols arrived. Earlier in the night a watehman reported that he had heard a gang plotting to rob the ofiices of the National Dyers, Palmer Street. Constables Askew, Palmer and Garvey were detailed to lceep a sharp look-out on their beat. They found a crowd of larrikins. in a lane and ordered them to move on. About 3 a.m., the constables discovered that the stores of Kolynos Incorporated, Crown Street, had been entered, a panel having been prized from the door. Search of Building. On the second floor the constables found two safes lying on thexr sides. The back had been torn out of one and haclc saw, chisel, hammer and other tools were strewn about. Hack saw cuts on the second safe indicated that the robbers had been disturbed and were still in the building. With revolvers drawn, the police commenced a search. For a quarter of an hour they searched, and then Palmer and Askew, leaving Garvey in the building, went to call the wireless patrok Robbers Crept Out. Thinking all the police had left, the robbers crept from their hiding. Garvey, in the darkness, heard the rattle of a door on the ground floor. Creeping forward, revolver in hand, Garvey ■ saw three men in the dim light,- trying to break out of the building. He ordered them to put up their hands, and when the wireless patrols with ten police arrived he handed over his charges, all of whom were under 20. They were charged with breaklng and entering. Three £1 nbtes and £3 in stamps were missing from the safe, and the police say they found two of the notes in the shoe of one man and the third in the boot of another. Police then raided a house in Darlinghurst, where two men were arrested. It is alleged that a number of stamps taken from the safe were found there. One of theSe men was charged with having an unlicensed pistol and the other was released.