DOMINION NEWS.
CAUGHT RED-HANDED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. • Wellington, September 11. A sensational arrest was effected this morning by Detectives Mason and Levvy, accountant for J. E. Fitzgerald., motor garage proprietor. For some time past goods had been disappearing mysteriously from the garage, and for four nights Mason and Levvy kept watch, and at 5.15 this morning a motor-car drove up, the door of the garage was opened, evidently by a duplicate key, and a man entered. ' Mason and Levvy waited vntil tho man had a case of petrol on Ms shoulder and the former presented a revolver. The intruder offered, no resistance. Hi=, name is John Alfred Shirley, and at the Magistrate's Court to-day he ,vas charged on two counts with tho theft of petrol. The case was adjourned and bail allowed in £2OO and. sureties , of £2OO.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1916, Page 2
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138DOMINION NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1916, Page 2
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