EARLY MORNING CHASE
CONSTABLES MAKE ARREST WINDOW CRASH HEARD (By Telegraph.—Press Association) PALMERSTON N., Monday Quick work by two constables in the early hours of the morning resulted in the capture of a man fleeing along Main Street just after a jeweller’s window had been broken with a stone and diamond rings worth £64 removed. These circumstances were related in the Magistrate’s Court by Senior-Sergeant Mclntyre before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., when Victor Richard Dallman, ship’s steward, aged 38, of England, appeared on a charge of breaking and entering by night the shop of Albert Ernest Looser and stealing three diamond rings of a value named. Constables Hansen and McJannet were emerging from a right of way at a dance hall when they heard the crash of breaking glass and saw a man run into Main Street. They immediately gave chase. Constable Hansen on a cycle and Constable McJannet in a taxi from a stand nearby. The man was headed off by Constable Hansen and captured by the other constable. Rings were found in his possession. SeniorSergeant Mclntyre asked that accused be remanded till Wednesday, and this was granted.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 8
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190EARLY MORNING CHASE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 8
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