COURTS AND OFFENCES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 March 1929, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES

ESCAPEE FOUND IN CUPBOARD. r!> leieg rapli Pruou Assoetauou., , AUCKLAND, March 1. John William Osborn, aged 17, who escaped from the police station (lockup a, tort night ago, was arrested at 2 o'clock this morning asleep in a large cupboard in the. residence of George Bloomfield, Epsom, about which, the detectives had been informed that a suspicious character had. been seen. A ban-eaten apple, an open book and a bed made of eiderdowns, indicated that Osborn had made himself comfortable. Osborn bad gained entry bv climbing through a window. Osborn submitted to arrest without a struggle and appeared l in court later on a charge of breaking and entering and) theft, of jewellery and money to the value of £75. He was remanded to March 7. Further chargesare said to be pending. ALLEGED THEFT OF GOODS. AUCKLAND, March 1A member of. the Wellington Fire Brigade, James William Stewart, aged 25, who arrived with his wife to spend a, holiday in Auckland, was charged at the Police, Court with the theft of a gold and diamond ring and a camera, to- the total vaAue of £lO, the property of some oeinson unknown, the police alleging that the property had been stolen bv the accused from fires he had attended; The accused was remanded, on bail to Wellington.