BURGLARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 215, 30 January 1913, Page 5

BURGLARY.

A PECULATING POLICEMAN. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A curious development has arisen in connection with the burglary from the premises of S. s ßoss, Lambton Quay, early in the morning of the 22nd inst. Or. an adjacent "beat" was a constable temporarily attached to the Wellington police force, who has since been charged with theft of a hat from Wallace Gibbons, and who is now in gaol on remand. On the morning of the burglary he called at a friend's house and left an overcoat there. As he did not return (he had been before the court and remanded, and was in gaol) the coat was examined, and in the pockets was found a quantity of jewellery. The detectives in due course were informed of the find and took possesion of it. Since then it has been shown to Ross, who identified the articles as his property. It may be added that on the day following the robbery a small cardboard box, containing a few gold pins, was found floating in the harbor, but the contents of the box were shown, o'i enquiry, not to bo part of Ross's stock.

Tbe policeman under arrest is Charles Alfred Rcmmcrs. About. £l4O worth of goods was taken from Ross's jewellery shop, and everything has been recovered. Remmers will appear in the Court on Friday to answer a charge of theft of wearing apparel from another shop, and the charge of theft of the jewellery will then be preferred against him. Remmers has only been in the local force a few months. He formerly belonged to the London Metropolitan Police, from which he had excellent discharges. 1 ■ '