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WOULD-BE ROBBER MAN WITH CHLOROFORM AND DETECTIYE NOVEL AS GUIDE A HAWERA SENSATION Hawera, Monday. Arrested at revolver point in the Patea hranch of the Bank of New Zealand at 10.45 on Saturday night, Albert Jeffrey (24) was charged in the Patea Court this morning with breaking and entering with intent to commit theft. He was remanded till Septemher 14. When the manager, Mr. A. C. Thompson, went to his bedroom on Saturday night he heard suspicioUs sounds, so he quietly took a revolver from a drawer. A man then dived from beneath the bed and rushed downstairs. Confronted by locked doors he eventually took refuge in a boot cupboard, whei'e he was located and locked by the manager pending the arrival of the police. When searched at the station the man was found to he in possession of r, pad of cotton wool soaksd in chloroform, a three-ounce bottle partly filled with ehloroform, and a length of stout cord. ,'In a bag was a novsl entitled "The Cat Burglar," a diamond glass-utter, and a packet of .22 revolver bullets, but no firearm.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 320, 6 September 1932, Page 5
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