SHOTS NEAR BOWSER

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 December 1933, Page 2

SHOTS NEAR BOWSER

TWO MEN ARRESTED [PKB PBE3B ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND. December 19. Two shots were fired last night, by a, bowser proprietor at Henderson, named Andrew Sinkovich, when pursuing a man whom he suspected of attempting theft. Sinkovich, whose house is about 200 yards from a bowser was telephoned by a neighbour at 10.30 lastnight. She said she could see men about the pumps. He awoke his son, got a shotgun, and then switched on the lights illuminating the pumps. Two men were immediately revealed and decamped, Sinkovich chasing one. He fired two shots and eventually the man stopped. A neighbour called a policeman who arrested a. man ;md then found a third man hiding in a nearby hedge. The second man who was chased by the son escaped, and though the search continued till early this morning, he is not yet found. A policeman however, found a motor truck about It'O yards up (he road.

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