Pig Hunters Apprehend Three Men With Safe

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28450, 3 December 1957, Page 11

Pig Hunters Apprehend Three Men With Safe

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, December 1. A party of pig hunters held two men at rifle point until police arrived when they found them with a large safe on the back of a truck nt Moonshine, Upper Hutt, at 4 a.m. today. A third man was later apprehended. The pig hunters—Messrs M. V Briscce, R. Calvert and P. Hait —discovered the pair and saw the safe on the truck when they rounded a bend in the road. The men fled into nearby bushes but were flushed out at rifle point after the pig hunters had threatened to fire into the bushes if they did not come out. The men came out from cover and were held at rifle point till Constable B. T. Gill, of the Upper Hutt police, could be summoned. Mr Calvert thought he had seen

a third man scurrying into the bushes. With Constable Gill, he searched the undergrowth and found a third man there. The safe was one stolen from the Hutt Valley Consumers’ Co-op store in Taita. Sergeant G. Tait, of Upper Hutt, who with Detective-Sergeant W. A. Parrish, was present when the third man was caught, said tonight that the pighunters had acted “with great enterprise.”