CAUGHT IN TIME.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 143, 15 June 1909, Page 7

CAUGHT IN TIME.

ARREST OF A WOULD-BE BURGLAR. ON THE WAY TO "CRACK A CRIB." [press association.] AUCKLAND, June 14. Constables Halliday and Bradley at 1.30 this morning found a man named Henry Wilcocks under suspicious circumstances at the corner of Seafield View and Khyber Pass Road. On searching him they found dynamite fuse, caps, putty and skeleton keys. Wilcocks did not deny the purpose for which h9 was so liberally provided. He admitted that he had intended to "crack" Bill Stevens's grocery store. The police subsequently searched Wilcocks's residence at Mount Roskill, and found more dynamite fuse and caps, which, together with the previous seizure, accounted for the theft of explosives from a shed at Mount Eden quarry.