THROUGH THE ROOF.
CHINESE LEAVE HASTILY.
DETECTIVES AT DOOR. Making use of a hole made in the roof by detectives with axes, when they raided a house in Grey Avenue in July of last year, a number of Chinese hastily departed on Saturday night when another party of detectives was. at the front door. The detectives, after battering down the front door, found no opium, but only three contented-looking Chinese. The raiding party comprised Detectives Hayes, Mills, Hamilton, Miller and Constable Williams. They arrived, at the house at 11.30 p.m., and, getting no reply to repeated knocks at the. front door, smashed it. There, was. only a short delay,, and then the detectives realised that- the hole in the ceiling which they had previously made had been used by a number of the occupants as an emergency exit. Several figures could be discerned clambering quickly over adjacent house tops. No arrests were made. A number of Chinese congregated near by, and were interested spectators of the raid which failed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 232, 2 October 1933, Page 3
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