NEWTON ROBBERY.
MUSIC SHOP ENTERED. DETECTIVES ARREST SUSPECT STOLEN PROPERTY FOUND. The police were not long in arresting a suspect in connection with the robbery of. valuable goods from a music shop in ICarariga-hape.;;RosLd, Newton, during the last; week-end. .''.: ; ■ Miss E. M. Grant's shop was entered by a thief who scaled a high brick Avail and afterwards cut a hole in the floor of the premises from underneath the cellar. Climbing through into the shop the thief bolted the front door so that entrance could not be*gained from the street. Last evening Detectives Knight and Sneddon arrested Nathaniel' Cameron Gow, a bricklayer, aged 44, on the charge of breaking and entering Miss Grant's shop and stealing 77 gramophone records, gramophone needles, two tone arms, one reproducer and a portable gramophone of a total value of £50. The detectives afterwards visited a house and recovered the whole of the stolen property from where it had been placed. «•
When- Gow appeared at the Police Court tliis morning on the charge, Detective Sergeant Kelly obtained a remand until September 5. Bail was allowed in two sureties, each of £100.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 204, 29 August 1929, Page 7
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186NEWTON ROBBERY. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 204, 29 August 1929, Page 7
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