A SENSATIONAL ARREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 295, 22 January 1910, Page 5

A SENSATIONAL ARREST.

ARMED IU'ROLARX SURPRISED. Bv Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Lust Xiglit. A arnvl was cll'eptcd today by Detective Oassells and Constable Pearcc. For some time, thv police have been receiving complaints of burglaries in th ( > city and suburbs. On Wednesday Detective Oassels. who was in charge of the investigation, went to the Makarn hills, where in a dilapidated uninhabited whare they found a swag containing much stolen good*. They rcmaine?] all nisrht waitini; for the oeeu. pants, but were disappointed. They spoke to some of the residents from whom they had had information, with the. result, that this morning they li-i.l a telephone message that two men were acting in a suspicious manner near the hut. Thev hurripd out but the men were not about. The officers were tfdd the Tr.m had Ifrcn sitting under the brow of the liill watching some wood•piitters. They found them there, and Tept up behind them and had the "bracelets'' on them before thev knew wnat. nan happened them. It iva* then found that nicß of them was armI ed with a five-chambered revolver full.loaded. Tiiey arv both youths, and are named Maurice Edward Pointon and t?,i.,- nl .,i r'-ui-j-hev. alias Kel'ly. About. foiirte"ii charges of burcrlaw. al'"<red to have been committed between January 2nd and 17th. will be brought against them.