CRIME IN AUCKLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 175, 23 January 1914, Page 8

CRIME IN AUCKLAND.

LACUNA'!'; iiElt CAUCiHT. J>'y Telegraph.- -Preps Association. Auckland, Lust X'ight. -At the Court,, I'i'itneis .Murphy, pleaded guijjy to stortliutf £j on i'riuay last, and was committed t,o the Court /or sentence. r.'isoue, bad snatched a liuinitiiiy from Mri Kce'.le rout;iiniii'i £4 ami an Inhibition til!;.'!. Tii" innn rail i.<IT, but ths lady'-' i'l'M- attracted i!i,. attention of ,1 miikniaii, who collared tlio ciilpnit with tli,' bag in hi'- pocket. Xt'iiSKS' CLI'J) HXTKttEJ\ A tall for liolp was riceireil nt the C''"tml I'olicv Station at ].].> a.m. today, from tli.' Nurses' Kesiclonti.il (Jiuii ill I'pper i.lneen Mreet, unci on the arrival of |\u> constables they found an undersized youth, 18 years 'of aire, sitting in de-habiile in 'one of the iipstirirs rooms, mid ledd a prisoner by a of nursts arineil with walking-sticks. It appears Unit about one o'clock some of i'"' were aroused by the sound of a man in the house, ami furthor investigation being ma.le they discovered that they could deal with the situation themselves till the police came, so several nurses armed themselves with walking-sticks, snapped on the lights, and dared the intruder, vho was in a I bedroom, to move until they gave tHi w.ord.

T!ie yVoutli. whose mime is Silva, stated that he took his boots oil' outside the house,and climbed up the verandah *0 the balcony through the window. His explanation or why ho went into the place surest* that his mmtal condition is not normal, and when he appeared the I'olic.e Court this morning 011 a charge of breaking and entering, he was remanded till next Wednesday for medical ebservaticn. CU.WCKS OF BURGLARY. Arthur 'Douglas, ."7 years old, was further renuimled burglary in Auckland a;ul tivo in Wliangarei, all committed in the opon daylight between January 3 and January 14. The goods stolen comprse silverware, jewellery, dressing-nascs, apd elothos of the best ijnalitv. Most of the property wan recovered by the detective- in parcels railed by train to Cambridge and Wellington railway stations, and awaiting directions for delivery. The value of the goods stolen amounts to about. £2OO.