MAN RELEASES BURGLAR

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29850, 16 June 1962, Page 5

MAN RELEASES BURGLAR

Doubted Intruder’s

Identity

(NZ Press Association)

AUCKLAND. June 15.

Mr Stewart Smith, shot-gun-carrying owner of Massey's Northern Service Station. had his seventeenth encounter with a would-be burglar about 1.45 am. today But he is really mortified He was not completely certain at the time that the youth he bailed up might not have been a genuine driver in distress, so he let him go Only later did he iearn the youth was in a stolen car which was later abandaned al Point Chevalier.

Mr Smith, who sleeps on hi. premises with a shotgun nearby, was woken by someone trying to get in. He confronted a well-built youth who insisted that all he wanted was petrol. "So I let him go but 1 took nis number and telephoned the police anyway.*’ said Mr Smith.

Next time he will keep the intruder where he is till the police arrive.

Aristotle himself has said, speaking of the laws of his own country, that jurisprudence. with knowledge of those laws, is the principal and most_ perfect branch of ethics.—William Blackstone.