BURGLARY PREVENTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 4, 6 January 1931, Page 3

BURGLARY PREVENTED.

CONSTABLE'S SMART WORK. ONE MAN ADMITS CHARGE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) MORRINSVILLE, Monday. Two strangers to Morrinsville, John Lynch and David Mclvor, appeared on remand in the Police Court, before justices, charged with attempting to break into the grocery store of Mr. H. Sandcis, in Thames Street, with intent to commit a crime. Constable Heeps stiiteu that about ll.?0 p.m. <n the evening of Boxiig Day he received a telephone message from a resident of Thames Street, who was suspiciqus about two men standing at the rei . of the grocery store. round the back of the store quietly he found the accused stauding by the door, and lie handcuffed them. Both- men denie at the time a 1 at they had been doing anything there. The door had Seen forced back an inch or two, and the lock broken, but the door was held by an iijsidc catch. A screwdriver and a pk-ce of iron that had apparently been used to tamper vjith the icck were Jyirg nearby. pleaded gudiy, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, but Mclvor pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. Lneli admitted the theft of tools from a shed ir. i>e town, and was se-ite icel to a month's imprisonment.