"HITLER DOES IT"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 58, 4 September 1939, Page 5

"HITLER DOES IT"

EXCUSE FOR WINDOWBREAKING A NATIVE ARRESTED "Hitler does it. Why shouldn't 1" said a native who was arrested by the police early on Sunday morning. The objects of the unwarranted aggression, in this' case were three shop windows which the arrested man is alleged to have broken with his boot. This student of international affairs is said to have blazed ciuite a ti*ail of destruction# commencing with Rae and Ramson's grocery shop in Commerce Street ) where a large plate glass window was broken,. Next on the list came a smaller one at the front of Mr W. Jarretfs shop and the third and final effort was the destruction of one t)f the plate glass windows of E. R. Dillicar Ltd's garage. This last led to the native's arrest. No one apparently heard the first two broken, but the sound of the destruction of 'the third attracted the attention of Mr A. C. King who rang the police and Mr Dillicar, and followed and caught the man. It is said tliat he made some attempt to feet a;vay and that Mr King was forced to throw him. Pie had quiet, ened down considerably, though Mr Dillicar and Mr King were holding him. when Constable H. Hedley arrived . The native was taken into custody. He will be charged this morning with drunkenness, breach of his prohibition order, and committing mischief.