CHARGES OF BURGLARY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15210, 22 January 1910, Page 10

CHARGES OF BURGLARY.

[Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 21. A sensational arrest was effected today by Detective Cassells and Constable Pearce. For some time tho police have been receiving complaints of burglaries in the city and suburbs. On Wednesday Detective Cassells, who was in charge of the investigation, and Constable Pearce, of Brooklyn, went to Makara Hills, where in a dilapidated, uninhabited whare, they found a swag containing a quantity of stolon goods. They remained all night, but no one appeared. They spoke to some residents from whom they had had information, with the result "that this morning they had a telephone message that two men wore acting in a suspicious manner near the hut. They turned out, but the men were not about. They were told that they had been sitting under the brow of a hill watching wood-splitters. The police found them there, and crept up behind them and had the handcuffs on them before they knew what had happened to them. The police then found that each’ of them was armed 1 with a five-chambered revolver, fully loadedThey are both youths, and are named Maurice Edward . Pointon and Edward Haughey alias Kelly. About fourteen charges of burglary, alleged to have been committed between January 2 and January 17, will be brought against them. ■ •