MISSING COUPLE.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18681, 3 May 1926, Page 1

MISSING COUPLE.

♦—■— '• ARRESTED IN WELLINGTON. —~~— (press association- tf.leobajj.) WELLINGTON, May 1. The young couple whose disappearance from Auckland was reported en j Friday, were arrested in Wellington yesterday afternoon by Detectjvo Sinclair and Constable Tins morning, they appeared before Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., the young man aged 19, on a charge of stea.iin;z a motor-car, valued at £"229, from the. Williams Rental Cars, Ltd., and ihe girl, who is only 17, on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person,, with insufficient means of support. On the application of Chief-Detective Ward, they were remanded to appear at Auckland on Monday. "I ask for the suppression of the names of these young people," said Mr W. E. Leicester, who appeared for the accused. "Irreparable harm would be done if their names were published in all the newspapers of New They have already been the victims ■>f sensationalism by the Auckland Press, which has chosen to make a mysterv of the matter in a lengthy Press Assoc in- • tion message, and I understand the young man has a good defence to offer to the charge against him.'' The application was granted.