DOMINION NEWS.
CAUGHT RED-HANDED. Wellington, September 11. A sensational arrest was effected tin's morning by Detectives Mason and Lcvvy, accountant for .1. E. Fitzgerald, motor garage proprietor. For some time past goods had been, disappearing mysteriously from the garage, and for four nights Mason and Dewy keptl watch, and at 5.15 this morning a motor-car drove up, the door of the garage was opened, evidently by a duplicate key, and a man entered. Mason and Lovvy waited until the man had a case of petrol on his shoulder and the former presented a revolver. The intruder offered no resistance. His name is John Alfred Shirley, and at the Magistrate’s Court to-day he was charged on two counts with the thelt of petrol. The case was adjourned and bail allowed in £2OO and sureties of £2OO.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 38, 12 September 1916, Page 3
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135DOMINION NEWS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 38, 12 September 1916, Page 3
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