INTRUDER IN BANK
Concealed Under Bed TRAPPED IN CUPBOARD By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hawera, September 5. Arrested at the revolver point in the Patea branch of the Bank of New Zealand at 10.45 on Saturday night, Albert Jeffery, aged 24, was charged, at the Patea Court this morning with breaking and entering, with intent to commit theft. Accused was remanded till September 14. When the manager, Mr. A. C. Thompson, went to his bedroom on Saturday night he heard suspicious sounds, so he quietly took a revolver from a drawer. A man then dived from beneath the bed and rushed downstairs, but was confronted by locked doors. Eventually he took refuge in the boot cupboard, where he was located and locked up by the manager pending the arrival of the police. When searched at the police station the man was found to be in possession of a pad of cotton-wool soaked in chloroform. He had a three-ounce bottle partly filled with chloroform, and a length of stout cord. In a bag was a novel entitled “The Cat Burglar,” a diamond glass-cutter, and a packet of .22 revolver bullets, but no firearm.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 10
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190INTRUDER IN BANK Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 10
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