WAITOTARA BURGLARY

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 June 1935, Page 6

WAITOTARA BURGLARY

Arrest of Suspects in New Plymouth Boardinghouse SEQUEL TO CAR CRASH PROMPT ACTION BY POLICE (Special to the “Hawera Star.”) NEW PLYMOUTH, To-day. The capture of two suspects in a Waitotara burglary a few hours after their arrival in New Plymouth and the recovery of a converted car in which they allegedly journeyed to New Plymouth were made by the police yesterday following a search by detectives and four members of the police force. As a sequel, William Kenneth Mailman, a labourer, aged 21 years, of Auckland, and Earl Dodds, or Eiarl Frederick Edward O’Neil, a labourer, aged 19 years, of Palmerston North, were charged in the Police Court this morning with having converted to their own. use a car valued at £223, the property of Mrs 11. Iv. Handley, Waitotara, on Tuesday and with breaking and entering a store owned by Arthur Hugh Parkinson, Waitotara, and stealing goods and money to the value of £25 yesterday. On the application of Detective P. Kearney, who appeared for the police, Mr G. Fraser, J.P., who was on the bench, remanded Mailman and Dodds to appear at Wanganui on July 3.

Neither had anything to say. Advice was received by the New Plymouth police- yesterday from Wanganui that, a store at Waitotara had boon entered during the night and about £S in cash, mostly in small coins, and a quantity of clothing was missing from stock. The articles included a leather overcoat, a light grey flannel suit, a pair of shoes and some tobacco. The first stop yesterday was taken when an abandoned ear which had crashed into a lamp-post at Westown was discovered. The New Plymouth station got in touch with Wanganui, and from information received from there the car was identified as the one stolen from Waitotara.

Detective Kearney and four members of the police force then conducted an extensive search and shortly after noon yesterday the two men wore arrested a few minutes after their arrival at a boarding bouse, where apparently they intended to spend the night. In their possession were some of the goods and a little over £7 in cash.