TWO SHOTS FIRED

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 74, 20 December 1933, Page 12

TWO SHOTS FIRED

Owner of Petrol Station MEN SEEN ABOUT PUMPS By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, December 19. Two shots were fired last night by Andrew Sinkovich, a petrol pump proprietor at Henderson, when pursuing a man whom he suspected of attempting a theft, Sinkovich, whose house is about 200 yards from the station, was telephoned at 10.30 p.m. by a neighbour, who said she could see men about the pumps. He woke his son, got a shotgun, and then switched on the lights illuminating the pumps. Two men immediately decamped, and Sinkovich chased one of them. He fired two shots, and eventually the man stopped. A neighbour called a policeman, who arrested the man, and then found a third man hiding in a nearby hedge. The second man, who was chased by the son, escaped, and though the search was continued till the early morning, he was not found. A policeman, however, found a motor-truck about-JOO yards up the road.

In the Police Court to-day the two suspects, Bert Roland Sergeant, aged 23, motor driver, and Alphonso Raymond Sergeant, aged 20, labourer, were charged with attempted theft of petrol and were remanded.