POLICE NET SET
Fals£ Fire Alarms AUCKLAND MAN CAUGHT By Telegraph. —Press Association Auckland, November 22. The police set a net in the city suburbs last night to catch a man who, on Tuesday night, gave four false fire alarms and on Thursday night ten. Policemen in plain clothes watched fire alarm boxes all over the city, and at 8 o’clock Constable McElhinney, hidden behind tombstones in a monumental mason’s ward, saw a man walk down bymonds Street, and as he passed a fare alarm box raised .his hand and broke the 1,1 The constable promptly arrested bim. ' This morning Vincent Crighton, 26 years of age, a labourer, charged with wilful damage of an alarm box, and wil-, ful false alarm, was remanded in custody. The police said that he would be identified on another charge. At defending counsels suggestion the magistrate, said Crighton would be medically examined.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 51, 24 November 1930, Page 13
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