THREAT OF GUN DEFIED

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 3 May 1934, Page 6

THREAT OF GUN DEFIED

CONSTABLE TACKLES MAN .. ' £ ' PAIR CHARGED WITH BURGLARY. ALLEGED THEFT OF SHOES. Z. ■ (By Telegraph—Tress Association.) . WELLINGTON; May 2. ..Fleas of not guilty were entered by William Murphy, a labourer, aged 50, and. Thomas Joseph O'Shea, a fireman, aged S 3, when charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day with breaking and entering oh April 15 the shop of ,R. Hafihah and Co. and stealing, .shoes valued at £9. Both were committed to the Supreme Conrt for trial. Evidence was given by the manageress of the shop, who said that when she returned on April 16 she found a glass panel of a door broken, and five pairs of lacEes’ shoes missing. She noticed. blood on a ledge in the shop, on the-floor and oh a footstool. Gerald Francis Gardner, a salesman, said he whs in Dixon Street at 11.5 p.m. on April 15, and just before ho got to Hannah’s, shop he heard the tinWifcg- Of glass'. As he passed the shop he saw a man standing in the doorway and another stepping through the broken panel of the .door. Witness informed a constable of what he had seen and pointeiToiit two men who were still in the vicinity. Constable Wilson, said he saw two men making , down Dixon Street, each with a bundle under his arm. (Both ran round the side of a house. Witness followed them and saw dVfurphy in a hidiing attitude along a path. Witness said, “Come on, I want you,” whereup Murphy stepped back two or three paces l andj putting his hand to his hip,, said,: “I have got a gnn on me.” Witness, punched Murphy twice and used a| baton on him when he started to call j fet his mate. j

Constable Satherley said when he arrived at the house in DixOn Street he saw a man standing against a wa'lL He called out to the man, who ran into d- house. Witness foilbw.ed. and in. a room ...upstairs found O’Shea in bed'. There was fresh blood on the back of O’Shea’s hand. -Constable Wills, assistant in the criminal’ registration branch of the Police Deparament, said* he was satisfied the fingerprints found on two pieces of glass taken from the broken door panel were those of the accused'.