MEN FOUND IN SHOP
STRUGGLE WITH POLICE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CIIRISTCHURCH, May 25. Gcorgo Grainger, aged 27, Patrick Gannon, aged. 25, and James Tanner, aged 25, three seamen, woro charged today with breaking and entering the Supply Stores warehouse in Colombo Street, ana committing theft. They were remanded until May 20., The police stated that the men were discovered in the shop last night. The quick thought of a Post and Telegraph officer and smart work by four police officers" wcro responsible for the arrest of threo men who, it is alleged, broke into the Supply Stores, Ltd., at tho corner of Colombo and Lawson Streets, Sydcnham. The men were found inside tho premises, but made a fight for. it and batons had to bo used. Warned by a postal officer living opposite after he saw lights in the stores, the police officers entered quietly. They came on the three men ir the darkness and took them completelj by surprise. Two of the men attempted to escape, but they were tackled by the policemen and for a fewhninutes there was a "regular donnybrook." The police wero t compelled to draw their batons. In a few minutes the three men were under arrest.
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Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 14
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202MEN FOUND IN SHOP Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 14
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