ANOTHER ROBBERY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 207, 6 September 1897, Page 4

ANOTHER ROBBERY.

A FURTHER case of breaking and entering occurred in Auckland on Saturday morning, the boot factory of Messrs 'Hoskin and Co., O'Connell-street, close to the Police Station in High-street, being entered and £5 10s worth of boots stolen. The thieves bad evidently gained access to the place by means of breaking a pane of glass in one of the windows, and then forcing the window open. Two men were subsequently arrested in connection with the affair, and were brought up at the Police Court to-day. About one o'clock yesterday afternoon Constable Mcliveney, on duty near the Queen-street Wharf^ met a man whom he thought he had seen before, and as he seemed to have an unusual protuberance under his coat, Mcliveney asked the man to unbutton his coat. The suspected one did so, and a pair of boots dropped on to the ground. He could not account satisfactorily for the boots, and the constable arrested him on a charge of having stolen a pair of boots, the property of some person unknown. Later on in the afternoon, Mr S. Goodman, the foreman af Messrs Hoskin and Co.'s factory, visited the factory in order to see that all was right, as was his usual practice on Sunday afternoon, and he found that a window had been opened and a number of pairs of boots stolen. He went to the police station and reported the affair, and when there lie saw the boots which Constable Mcliveney had taken from the prisoner and identified them as part of the missing property. The person arrested, James Johnson, alias Wilson, alias Williams, who is an elderly man, gave information as to the rest of the missing property, and it was all recovered. It was found that some of the boots had been sold by the prisoner to some Maoris staying at the native hostelry in Freeman's Bay Last night, Chief Detective Grace and Detective Maddern arrested another man William McCaulay, and the two were charged conjointly with breaking and entering into Hoskins* * Boot Factory, and i ealilJF therefrom goods to the value of £5 10s.—The accused are remanded for a i week.