MEN ARRESTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1941, Page 6

MEN ARRESTED

AFTER INTENSIVE HUNT

EXTENDING OVER SEVERAL PROVINCES. SUCCESSFUL POLICE PURSUIT. ißy Telegraph—Press Association.! GREYMOUTH, This Day. An intensive man-hunt, covering the whole of Westland and parts of Nelson and Canterbury Provinces, was successfully concluded this morning, when three men wanted for alleged crimes throughout the Dominion, including safe-blowing, were arrested at Barrytown, 17 miles from Greymouth.

From early yesterday morning, when the mon were intercepted at Reefton by constables but made a getaway in a car, which subsequently was wrecked, being replaced by the converting of another car near Reefton, all roads were patrolled by parties of armed police.

Early this morning the men, having I put the converted car over a bank on the Greymouth-Westport coastal road, called at the Barrytown farm of Mr Henry Langridge and asked for a ride into Greymouth, one man telling a story that his wife was dangerously ill. Mr Langridge agreed to convey the men to Greymouth but, being suspicious, telephoned the Greymouth police, with the result that his car was intercepted a few miles from Barrytown and the arrests were made. The men later appeared before Mr G. G. Chisholm, S.M., charged with converting a car in which they travelled yesterday. Their names are:—Graham Wilfred Morton, aged 31; Leslie Jack Davis-, aged 30. and lan Carr Douglas, aged 26.' All are described as natives of New Zealand and labourers, with no fixed abode. On an application by the police, who stated that they were wanted for offences in other places-in New Zealand, the men were remanded to appear in Christchurch on Monday.