A SMART CAPTURE

Evening Star, Issue 23101, 29 October 1938, Page 16

A SMART CAPTURE

masked intruder on premises / ARRESTED IN WAREHOUSE YARD MAN CHARGED AND REMANDED No time was lost and no chances were taken by two car loads of detectives, some of whom bore arms, in rushing to the premises of Messrs Wilson, Balk, and Co. Ltd., in Jetty street, shortly after 8 o’clock last evening, when certain information received caused them to suspect that these premises were being visited by an unauthorised person or persons. The information proved t 6 be correct, a tub a man, who had the lower part of his face covered by a handkerchief, was promptly arrested. _ The posse of police, which was led by Detective-sergeant T. Y. Hall, consisted of five detectives and two constables in plain clothes from the central station. The premises were quickly surrounded, and Detectives Gibson and Brown and Acting-detective M'Dougall entered from the front. ■ Disturbed by the entry, a man ran out the back way and endeavoured to escape over a high gate, the top _ of which was covered by barbed wire. Here Detective-sergeant Taylor, who was stationed outside the gate, called upon him to halt, and Detective Gibson, following closely behind the fugitive, captured and arrested him. He was then conveyed to the Central Police Station in one of the cars. The whole of the proceedings, which lasted only a few minutes, were carried out in a most efficient manner. These premises had been broken into on at least two occasions previously, when, though the booty obtained by the intruders was not very extensive, damage and annoyance had been caused. This morning, in the Police Court, Samuel Joseph Blee, a middle-aged man, Tvas charged that, being deemed to be a rogue and a vagabond, he was found by night without lawful excuse in the enclosed yard of Wilson, Balk, and Co., Ltd. ChieWetective i Holmes asked for a remand until November 2, and this was granted* by the magistrate (Mr J. 11. Bartholomew). .