ALLEGED SAFE-BREAKER
CAPTURED AFTER CHASE
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
WELLINGTON, June 22.
During the early hours of this morning, acting on certain information, a -police party went to the Ngahauranga Gorge, in a police car, followed by further members of the force. At a point where public works men were
tipping spoil, they came upon a Barton Ginger van. They arrested a man, Thomas Gordon, 37, labourer and taxidriver, on a charge of breaking and entering Barton Ginger’s premises in Dixon Street, and committing theft, also with unlawfully converting a mo-tor-van, valued at £260.
The police allege that accused was engaged at the time of his arrest by a safe, which had been blown open. He was shovelling some material on a fire, and, by the fire, they discovered a large quantity of gelignite, detonators, and housebreakers’ instruments. When he saw the police, he bolted, and was subsequently captured in the bush.
A remand was made till June 28
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1939, Page 6
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