THE RECENT MASTERTON BURGLARY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9046, 23 March 1908, Page 5

THE RECENT MASTERTON BURGLARY.

A SUSPECT IMPRISONED AT NAPIER. The following paragraph appeared in Saturday's issue of the "Hawke's Bay Herald":— "Among the goods found on William Cameron, alias Joseph Harward, who was sentenced on Thursday to two months' imprisonment for assaulting and resisting Constable O'Brien, on the defendant being searched at the police station, were a number of articles, identified by Detective Quarterman and Constable Baker, who were present at the searching, as the proceeds of recent burglaries at Masterton and Woodville. The two officers have been conducting a vigorous search for Cameron's effects, and yesterday afternoon their efforts were successful, in his trunks were found a considerable quantity of articles stolen from places in the above-mentioned towns, particularly Masterton. Another portion of the property found is considered to be probably the proceeds of a crioie at Rotorua, where gelignite was used in a safe robbery, and this explosive, together with dynamite and fuse, was also found among Cameron's effects. Credit is due to the officers referred to for their untiring efforts in this case," Sergeant Miller informed a Wairarapa Age reporter last evening ♦hat information respecting the suspected burglar had been enquired for from Napier, and Mr Scott, whose premises were burglariously entered a few weeks ago, would be asked to identify the articles stolen from his establishment. It is understood that the description of the prisoner as telegraphed to Masterton corresponds with that of a man who stayed at a Masterton boarding-house at the time of the burglary, and who Jeft after it had been committed.