Another Smart Arrest To Credit of Police

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 1

Another Smart Arrest To Credit of Police

TWO MEN IN DOCK CAUGHT OUTSIDE HOTEL Disappointment awaited two men who ran a very considerable risk in breaking into the cellar of the Shakespeare Hotel, Wynd- ; ham Street, at an early hour last ; evening. Their arrest by Constable Hayes added another to the series of smart captures made by the uniform branch of the police lately. The hotel was entered by forcing a grating in the footpath. The grating was secured by chains attached to a metai ring in the cellar floor but these had been forced evidently by a crowbar which was found nearby. In the cellar there were several bottles of cordial and casks of draught beer. The cordial, which had been left in the cellar only yesterday afternoon, was in bottles wrapped in tissue paper, and it is thought that the intruders mistook it for whisky. According to the police, Constable Hayes had the men under observation for some time. He accosted them as one man was holding the grating up to allow his companion, who was carrying the cordial bottles, to climb up on to the footpath. The arrests were made about 9.70 p.m. This morning at the Police Court, Harry Collins, a seaman aged 50, and Henry Girling Arnold, a labourer aged 55, were charged with breaking and entering the Shakespeare Hotel and stealing seven bottles of cordial valued at 7s 7d and belonging to John On the application of Sub-Inspector A Carthy, a remand was made until Monday in order that investigations could be made. Constable Hayes was also responsible for a sensational arrest last Tuesday night, when he caught an intruder in the office of a monumental mason’s premises in Victoria Street. It is alleged that there was a fierce struggle before the man was arrested, and he is now awaiting trial on chars es of breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime resisting arrest and committing wilful mischief by damaging a helmet. ... The same constable, with Constable Needham, has been prominent in a recent police campaign when the western city area between \ ictona Street and Newton was combed for vagrants and other undesirables.