TWO MEN ARRESTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1937, Page 22

TWO MEN ARRESTED.

SCHOOLBOY DETECTIVE. THEFT OF CLOCK ALLEGED. (Bp«dll.—By Air Mall.) LONDON', October 22. Detective work by a schoolboy led to the arrest of two men. who, at West London. were committed for trial churned with stealing from a flat a clock and other articles worth £12. The men were Walter (Jeorjre Jones, «ged 2fi. a homeless labourer and Charles Frederick Butler, aged 2fl, a motor driver. Robert Britnell, aged 14. said as he was returning from church on a Sunday evening through an alley at the back of Powis Gardens he saw a clock on the wall. He took it down, examined it, and seeing that it was a good clock, put it Itack on the wall and went round to the house to inform the occupants. While he was on the doorstep the two defendants came up and asked him if the people had come back from church. He so id he did not know, and they walked away. Thinking the matter suspicious, he followed them. They went up the alley, walked past the clock, turned back, took the clock down and went off with it. He followed them through several streets and saw them pick up a piece of paper and wrap the clock in it. He traced them to Convent Gardens, where they entered a house, and he then went to the police. Inspector Mortimer said in a room occupied bv Butler in Convent Gardens he found the clock on the ma ntelpiece.