HOUSE-BREAKING

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 20, 24 July 1922, Page 8

HOUSE-BREAKING

CHIEF DETECTIVE'S CAPTURE

BIG LIST OF CHARGES.

Fourteen charges of house-breaking are to be preferred against David Davie% the man whom Chief Detective T. Kemp recently chased and captured, when he appears in the Magistrate's Court on Wednesday next. It is alleged that Davies had been operating in various parts of the city during the early hours of mornings from the Bth June to the 13th July, and that from a number of houses he obtained money, jewellery, and other articles of a total value of nearly £100. The occupants of the premises which he is alleged to have entered are as follow; the money and articles stated to be stolen being given in parentheses:—R. F. Bourke, Evans Bay-road (£l3 10s in money); E7 B. Woodhead, Matai-road, Hataitai (jewellery to the value of £19, and £3 in money); T. J. Cox, The Terrace (£l3 in money); Irene Skinner, private school, Fitzherbert-terrace; E. Warcup, Evans Bay-road; Emily M. Barker, Vallancestreet, Kilbirnie; Elizabeth Howarth, Evans Bay-road; .T. A. Biss, 15, Parkstreet (£l3 10s in money); R. S. Johnston, 318, Willis-street (£7 10s in money); Henrietta Priestly, 42, Rawhititerrace (£3 6s 5d in money and a pair, of gloves); Mrs. Bidwell, Hobson-street (£2 15s in money); F. W. Hislop, Carl-ton-Gore-road, Roseneath (£2 in money); C. C. Carter, 13, Adams-terrace (money and jewellery to the value of £14); Chief Detective T. S. C. Kemp, Murphystreet (clothing, money, etc.; to the value of £6). In some cases nothing appeared to have been taken, and the man will be charged with breaking and entering by night with intent to commit a crime. It will bo remembered that on the morning of the 13th July Chief Detective Kemp found a man.in,his bedroom, and in spite of the fact that the chief detective was clad only in Iris pyjamas he gave chasej and subsequently caught his man after covering about a quarter of a mile..