Caught With Safe In Stolen Car
A constable on the beat in Ashburton at 4.20 a.m. yesterday found that two shops had been broken into.
About 4 a.m. in Christchurch. a C. 1.8. night patrol followed a dishevelled young man carrying a can of petrol through the city streets. The man went up to a stationary car, in which was another young man. Petrol was being put in the car when Detective - Sergeant N. J. Stokes and Constable R. T. Kennedy approached the men. A safe, unopened, was on the back seat of the car. The safe contained £BO. It had been stolen from an Ashburton shop. The car had been stolen from Oxford terrace at 9 p.m. on Tuesday. The young men were arrested. Detective-Sergeant Stokes subsequently searched the flat where the young men were living. Twelve sports shirts and 10 pullovers, stolen from an Ashburton shop were found. The police also took possession of two cameras, stolen from the display window of another Ashburton shop, and two tran-
sistor radios and a transistor tape-recorder stolen from a Temuka shop. The shops had all been broken into during Tuesday night and yesterday morning.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31195, 20 October 1966, Page 18
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