Girl Puts Police on Trail of Fur Robbery

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 783, 2 October 1929, Page 1

Girl Puts Police on Trail of Fur Robbery

QUICK ARREST SHOP DOOR SMASHED Yesterday afternoon two men ! called at the Moose Fur Trading Company and priced the furs in the shop. Last evening about 8 o’clock the shop was broken into and over £IOO worth of furs stolen. Later in the evening, as two men ore entering a taxi in Waverlej ►Street, behind the shop, they were arrested by detectives and relieved of a sugar-sack and a valise which they had in their possession and which were full of furs. The furs which were recovered when the two men were arrested are said by Mr. Frederick Prouting, manager of the Moose Fur Trading Company, to be those taken from his shop. A girl who was standing near a restaurant nearby saw tw r o men approacn the doorway of the shop. Later there was a crash and the two men disappeared. The girl told her mother, who immediately telephoned to the police. Detective-Sergeant J. Bickerdike, Detectives Knight and Moon, and Acting-Detective Davis were soon on the scene of the robbery. They were told by the girl that she had seen two men come out of the shop and run down. . the street. Each was carrying a bulky parcel. The detectives found that a plateglass panel in the door had been broken and that the door itself had been smashed. A blunt instrument, which was probably used to break the door, was later found lying in the gutter. While the detectives searched the neighbourhood two men were seen to leave a house in Waverley Street and prepare to enter a taxi. It was then that they were stopped and questioned by the detectives. Both men were arrested and taken to the police station. ACCUSED IN COURT REMAND MADE UNTIL OCTOBER 10 This morning at the Police Court two burly men were charged with breaking and entering the premises of the Moose Fur Trading Company, at 430 Upper Queen Street, and stealing furs and a leather bag valued at £75. Their names were James Dixon, a labourer, aged 36, and James McDonald, a boilermaker, of the S.S. Kaiapoi, aged 43. On the application of Chief-Detec-tive Hammond a remand was made until October 10. “We will be ready to go on then,” he said. "There is another charge to be made.”