A HOUSE-BREAKER DETECTED.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 14. Constables Halliday and Bradley, &%■ 1.30 this morning found a man named. Henry Wilcocks under suspicious circumstances at the corner of Seafield View and Kybed Pass. On searching him they found some dynamite, fuse and caps, putty and skeleton keys. Wilcocks did not deny the purpose for which he was so liberally provided, and admitted that he had ' 'intended to 'crack' Bill Stevens' grocery store." The police subsequently searched Wilcocks s residence at Mount Roskill, and found more dynamite, fuse and caps, which, together*with tho previous seizure, accounted for tho theft of explo-, sives from a shed at Mount Eden quarry.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7821, 14 June 1909, Page 3
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109A HOUSE-BREAKER DETECTED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7821, 14 June 1909, Page 3
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