BIKE-SNATCHING.
MOEE CASES IX ATJCKI43JD.
The offence of bicycle stealing is comparatively rare •in Auckland, but there was an epidemic of it early in the year When a youth who had lifted a.number, of bicycles "belonging-; to other people "was brought to book toy the police; early' in March it was thought ihat the incident was closed, but the recent arrest'in Kings View Road of the young \rnan, Charles Windje, by Detectives Cummings and Sweeney, resulted- • in' facts being brought to light that 'connect; Windle •with quite a riunrber of missing bicycles, most of them the property* of telegraph messengers. rested in the first place on. a charge of indecently, assaulting a young 'girl, : imi since his arrest charges oi stealing a watch and chain and six bicycles have been preferred against him. Four, of the bicycles have been recovered 'in sec-ond-hand ..shops. jQne, a .new . ..Skeates and White cycle, numbered 26,400, is •being .particularly -inquired for: Windle asserts that he sold it to a man who was a stranger to him. - ' .-'■ Windle, who is a young,married man of 23 years, and had beA only a few months out from England, will appear at the Police. Court .on the charges on ■Friday.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 78, 2 April 1913, Page 5
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