COUNTRY ROBBERIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 206, 29 August 1905, Page 5

COUNTRY ROBBERIES.

TWO MEN ARRESTED AT j HAMILTON. i . SE_ELETON KEYS FOUND. | (By Telegraph— Own Corr'spondenh. I CAMBRIDGE, this day. On Sunday night Mr Connolly's booti makers shop was burglariously entered I and three pairs cf boots were stolen, but j here was no trace of forcible entry, j i Constable McNamara had his suspicions i aroused re two young men who had , I been in Cambridge last week, giving the names of Jamieson and Gibbons. It was stated that they were two engi ! I neers of the Union Company on a hoLi- i j lay. One of them was suffering from ' pleurisy. They left the town yesterday j I morning, but the constable traced then: i '• .0 Hamilton. He went down last nigh: i _nd arrested them about 11 o'clock. Th- j j constable found 43 skeleton keys a.wi | | what are believed to be the proceeds of I .■any burglaries in Waikino, Waihi, and | | parts of the Goldfields. The ac- j I cused will be brought up at Hamilton ' I this morning and remanded. ! HAMILTON, this day. ' i Two young men, who gave the names j 1 David Jenkin and John McGregor, who ; were arrested at Hamilton last night on a charge of burglary at Cambridge, were i i brought up at the Police Court to-day. | land remanded for eight days to Cam- | I bridge. The capture was cleverly effectled. Constable MeNamara, assisted by ', Constable Ryan, in their possession i j found upwards of 100 keys, including 43 J I skeleton, a variety of missing article. and also a number of articles alleged to 6e identical with those taken from a i Waikino store on te 18th or 19th, when , a fair sum of money was also taken. The accused had only one penny in their ; possession. They are each about 20 years of age, ! =