POLICE COMMENDED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 82, 17 January 1930, Page 3

POLICE COMMENDED

MAGISTRATE'S EULOGY.

CRIME SERIES TO END. (Special to the "Guardian.") CHRISTCHURCH, This Day "We have come to the end of the hearing of a scries of charges that are remarkable in the history of Christchurch, and comprise a tale of dastardly clime," said. Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.* at the Christchurch Magistrate s Court yesterday, at the conclusion of the lower Court trial of the Gray Brothers. ~ "I feel it mv duty to express the thanks of the Bench to the police and to counsel for the expeditious manner in which they have aided the hearing of the trial so far. "I also wish to congratulate the police on solving the great problems which beset them. I realise that Ihev were up against great difficulties lam happy to say that no matter how hard their tasks is they generally get there in the end. j "This time their success was due jo the initiative of Constable Gillum in making the arrest, and the ability and thoroiighness shown by the detectives in their searching inquiries. It is a matter for congratulation that the community is now rid, for the .time being at any rate, of two young men who not only endangered property, but, as has been shown, people's lives as well."