STOPPED BY SHOTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 12

STOPPED BY SHOTS

TWO MEN CHAKGED

PETROL PUMP INCIDENT

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, This Day. 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 two hundred yards from the station, was tefephoned at 10.30 p.m. by a neighbour, who said she could see men about, the pumps. Ho 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 one hundred yards up the road.

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