WELL ARMED

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1931, Page 10

WELL ARMED

YOUTHS AT NAPIER

POLICE CATCH THREE

(By Telegraph .—Press Association.) NAPIER, This Day. Three youths, John "Wiffin, aged 17, and Godfrey Jeffares and Frederick Mark Liekfold, aged 10, were apprehended in the early hours of tliis morning, armed with, loaded rifles. A car occupied by them was well filled with goods of a similar nature "to these, stolen from the properties .'of A. A. Hastings, electrician, and •J.. D. M'Leod, builder. ■ . j . . Earlier in the. evening, while proceeding to the police station under escort, two of four men escaped. One was later captured in Williams's explosives magazine on the swamp at the side' of. the Tar'adale. road. He was armed with a loaded service rifle. A large quantity of explosives removed from a magazine and stored in the swamp was recovered. ■ The store included 401b of gelignite, and v large number of detonators. There is no sign of the fourth, man. The three youths were charged at the Police Court, before the Magistrate, Mr. Mowlem, with being rogues and vagabonds,' in that they were found by night in possession of a loaded rifle with felonious intent. On the application of Detective-Sergeant Fitzgibbon, they were remanded to sth May.