ASSISTANCE TO POLICE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25270, 23 August 1947, Page 2

ASSISTANCE TO POLICE

NELSON COLLEGE BOYS * The Press ' Special Service „ , NELSON. Aug. 22. How he called on two Nelson College boys to help to apprehend a man who was interrupted when breaking into the office of timber merchants was told by a police sergeant when John Adair Akehurst, a motor-driver, aged 30, pleaded guilty to 18 charges of breaking, entering, and theft, and attempted breaking and entering -and theft before Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M.

Sergeant C. J. Dwyer said that about 3.25 p.m. last Saturday, he was on duty in Hardy street with a constable and went to inspect the premises. He told the constable to have a look at the office while he went to look at other parts of the ? remises. He saw the running hrough a timber shed ffom the direction of the office. He ran after the accused, but as he had his waterproof coat on. the> witness could see that he would not catch the accused, so he called to two youths on bicycles to assist in catching the accused. One of the youths, whom the witness later ascertained to he a Nelson College student named Arnold Kennedy, tackled the accused in a section on the northern side of Hardy street, and when the sergeant arrived he found the constable and Kennedy standing beside the accused, who lay on the ground out of breath.