BURGLAR CAUGHT.
CIVILIANS COMMENDED. DESERVE COMMUNITY’S THANKS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. “The actions of Messrs Ralph Hogg and H. W. Patten were highly commendable, particularly in view of the activity of the accused in hurdling the fences, and they deserve the thanks of the community," said Mr W. F. Stilwell, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court in a case in which Bernard Eric Bothwell, a ship’s steward, was charged with entering the dwelling of Walter Frederick Sherwood with Intent to commit a orime. The evidence was that Hogg heard a man in a flat above his own when ha knew the owner was away for the evening. He called upon the Intruder, who escaped through a window. Hogg pursued him over some fences, and Patten, who had been summoned In the meantime, went out on to the road and made a capture. Acoused, who pleaded guilty, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20264, 5 August 1937, Page 6
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154BURGLAR CAUGHT. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20264, 5 August 1937, Page 6
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