THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED

Evening Star, Issue 24003, 30 September 1941, Page 6

THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED

TWO OF THEM JUVENILES FACTORY ROBBERY AMD ASSAULT VICTIM'S CONDITION STILL SERIOUS (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 29. A blood-stained claw hammer which is believed to have been used in the attack on Mr E. L. Riley, was found by the police to-day near the scene of the struggle. Detectives also recovered a bank bag containing £SO in the factory, but over £IOO is still missing, while small sums were also found to have been taken from two other offices in the same building. Mr Riley’s condition to-night was still serious. As the result of extensive inquiries by a large number of detectives, three suspects were arrested late to-day. Two of the suspects are juveniles. •[Mr Riley, aged 31, the manager, called at the factory of E. L. Riley Ltd. shortly after 4 p.ra. on Sunday to secure the safe door, which he remembered had been inadvertently left open, and met three men leaving the office. A struggle ensued, as Riley endeavoured to apprehend one of the men, and Mrs Riley used the office phone to call the police.]

CHARGED IN CHILDREN'S COURT REMANDS GRANTED (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 30.^ Three suspects, aged 15, 16, and 17,. described as labourers, appeared at a special sitting of the Children’s Court before Mr Hunt, S.M., on a joint charge of breaking and entering the counting house of E. L. Riley Ltd. at Newmarket on Sunday and stealing £l4B 9s. The youth of 17, who is beyond the jurisdiction of the Children’s Court, was remanded to appear in the Police Court on October 9, and the others were remanded to appear at the'Childrcn’s Court on October 10. No charge has yet been brought in connection with the assault made upon the factory manager, Mr E. L. Riley, who was sent to hospital with head injuries. Mr Riley’s condition to-day was reported to be fair. ANOTHER CASE ELDERLY SHOPKEEPER IN HOSPITAL AT CRIPS WITH PROWLER (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 30. The second man in a few days to be injured in protection of his property against robbery was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital at 8.30 last evening. The victim now in hospital is H. N. Vincent, who has a large leather goods shop at 62 Manchester street.

Living alone in rooms above the shop, Vincent heard last evening the footsteps of a prowler at the back of his premises, and although he is 66 years of age. he went down single-handed to investigated Now lying in hospital suffering from head injuries, Vincent was unable to give this morning a clear account of what happened last evening, but it appears that he heard someone trying to force an entry at the back of the shop, where a attempt wss made some time ago. Going down from his rooms, ho accosted a stranger in an adjoining vacant section, where they came to grips, the trambled grass showing where they struggled until Vincent was either felled by a blow on the head or thrown down and struck his head on one of the broken bricks ov fragments of broken concrete that lie about in the grass.