PRISONER IN BOND STORE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 May 1927, Page 7

PRISONER IN BOND STORE.

A DUNEDIN DISCOVERY

HAD BEEN THERE A MONTH.

(by TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

DUNEDIN, May 6. A sensational discovery was made in Neill’s bond .store this morning, and which resulted in .the arrest of a man nam;:d Arthur George Rennie, whom the police have wain,ted for some time on many charges of .stealing from seaside cribs.

A youth who was .sent to the top flat of the bond saw smoke issuing from thei rafters and discerned ,a form crouching there. The police were isent lor and the man emerged in a disreput--able state, with bags round his legs and a month’s growth of beard, one side of which was singed. About a month ago the skylikht was found-to be broken fn the bond, and the police found a coat and boots on the roof, but there was no sign of the man.

It appears that Rennie had procured a ladder, climbed up oin; the rafters, and hidden himself, dragging tile ladder up after him. so that nobody had an ink-

ling that anyone was there. When the skylight was mended- Rennie found himself a prisoner in the bond. He lav hidden all day, emerging at night and rifling the bond of champagne, bread, sardines, cheese, cigars and cigarettes, the debris of winch was found in great quantities in -his lair. Apparently, when in -a “dopy’’ con<htk>n, he had allowed a match to. start a fire and had got his face singed. Rennie was a|n astoniishng figure ais ne was taken t-o, the polio© station.