A COUNTRY VISITOR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 226, 22 September 1915, Page 6

A COUNTRY VISITOR.

ROBBED OF HIS CASH. TWO SUPPECTS ARRESTED. Tivo vveli-arefeed young men—John Anthony Flint c>o) and C.eorie f2-l — were arrested last night by Plain'lotlies Constable Maguire on a' charge that they had stolen £6 from the person of Alfred Cnii«e. I About seven o'clock in the evening J Constable Maguire reccivo.l a complaint from Cruise, a country man spending a holiday in town, that he had been rc/btiH a fo-.v minuted pre\-iously. He etAted that he ha -I met a couple nf men nml ehouted for them. and. on their representations that they were h.ir 1 up, lvi.l nl-.i treated t!.e;n" to tea and had them railway tickets to Mercer. After having cot the tea, he said", ih.y find got him to a side street, and ii id then- forcibly robbed him of liis money. Constable Maf;ui:e made inquirien lit the place iihore the men hsd tea. and, «rm<- ( | with ,i set forth to look for liw men. He pirkcl n[i two men iir thf TluiiMts Hotel ivhn to the d.-vii;.t X.-i -n, n him. mi . bailed I them up. Alt'i-v _•:, they ,!i-c!;ii:i >■ 1 nny knnwl<-d 2 e i,( ( r ~-,-. the constable per-«i-tcl that tiiry should za with him and mwt Cruise, nnd he spotted tlu-m each furtivily drop a> ru.hvuv tuket nn tlie I floor, whii-h .1 ( , ,|, | tie ;irrc-t. One In hi then lint] 11 11 i! ~v h in. :i:i 1 the ollirr'si cash pi>-ditaiund to Both men came "oof or* Mi X V. Fratcr. S.M.. tins timrniiiK a ! srere remanded till T'i ir-l.iv «,Vk.