MAN AND WOMAN ARRESTED.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20317, 17 August 1931, Page 16

MAN AND WOMAN ARRESTED.

| I CHARGE OF THEFT AT i WELLINGTON. | KKVOI.VER 4ND AIR-PISTOL j FOUND. \KW PLYMOUTH, August .Hi. iin Saturday morning at the Terr.'nus Hotel, New Plymouth, Sergeant >! vGrctro' - and Detective ....ciklejohn i ■ !■<:■«tc-d .lack and Florence "Winstone. • of their room at- the hotel the time of the arrest disclosed a niiy-loadcd five-chambered revolver 1 ■nd a powerful air-pistol, capable of iiiup; lead slugs with considerable <n;ce Included in the accused's • tfetts was a so«*k containing a quaiiiv or .32 calibre bullets, and two of lead slugs, one size of which •it'ed tho air-pistol, tho other being j ■'o small. I'iic accused. who are both Austra- j ■v-. gave their ages as 20 and '32 re- i -i>«vlively, but they look about three or j -...ir years older than that. Tho astuteness of the management j ■! RLe Terminus Hotel was largely re- i ■ i'jnsible for the arrest of the two I ii.'oplc. Lust Wednesday night, a con- . ;il>!o on his Lent was approached by man who said that he had booked i n at, the Arcadia Hotel, but was un " : bio to train admittance at that late '•our. The constable suggested that would be able to secure accommo- j tation at the Terminus Hotel, wnero i hero was a night porter. The man .cted on this suggestion, and was •ooked in by the night porter at the Terminus, givim; the name oi Win-j •ioue. . i iTii,i now lodger explained that i ue would ha joining him about midiav on Thursdav, and the woman duly ■ invjd for lunch. The management •11 the hotel became suspicious, howver. owing to the mysterious movements of the new lodgers. ■ The domestic staff of the hotel was instructed ••> keep a careful watch on the movements of Mr and Mrs Winstone. The man seldom had his meals in j-.? dining-room, preferring them 111 lis bedroom. Other lifctl© incidents •nd the movements generally of the ■ i<3w arrivals strengthened the sus--j.ifions of tlio management. The police were accordingly notified, ■vith the result, it is stated, that the ucused are at present charged with iieiug armed with an offensive weapon, namely a five-chambered revolver at Uiramar. "Wellington, on August 7tli, iijd with Tobbing one Guthrie of a her|Ue-book; and with being unlawfully in tho possession of a fivehainhered revolver and a compressed air-pistol, both of them dangerous ■veapons. at New Plymouth on August 15th. It is understood thai when the accused come before the Court onMonday morning, further charges in connex:<m with all the recent holding-np and -earching episodes at Miramar and (lav's Bav will he. preferred, and that vise police will ask for a remand to Well in gton.