PREMISES ENTERED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 27 May 1938, Page 9

PREMISES ENTERED.

A HASTINGS CASE. • Per Press Association. ' HASTINGS, May 26. Particularly smart work was performed by the night-watchman a.nd members of the Hastings police last night and resulted in the identifying of two juveniles from Napier as the alleged perpetrators of two burglaries committed earlier in the evening in the main business area of Hastings. The premises entered were those of Hallenstein Bros., mercers, and Madam Cowan, gown specialist, in Heretaunga Street. The discovery l>y the night-watchman of an open door aroused his suspicion and gave cause for him to give the alarm to the police. The night-watch-man was informed by two girls that two youths had been seen carrying a suitcase and overcoats as they left the right-of-way leading to the premises owned by Hallenstein Bros. He hailed a taxi and conducted a search that eventually led him to a boardinghouse. Meanwhile Constable R. Bradley and members of the Detective Force also engaged in the search. Thev were successful in locating the missing goods, which had been hidden in conveniences. Entry was made into each shop by breaking a rear window. In Hallenstein’s shop several overcoats, together with a suitcase of assorted clothing which they had packed, were taken. The haul from Cowan’s premises comprised about £8 or £lO in cash. _ _ It is understood that all the missing goods and cash have l>een recovered. As the two apprehended are juveniles, whose homes are in Napier, thev will he dealt with in the Juvenile Court, probably in Napier.