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Two Youths on Breaking And Entering Charges

EARLY MORNING EPISODE IN CITY Shortly after 3 o’clock yesterday morning tho polico were notified of untoward happenings in tho motor-cycle premises of Manning and Coulter, King Street, Palmerston North. Constables thereupon made an investigation and apprehended Jack Henry Check, shop assistant, aged 20 years, and Victor William Kendall, motor driver, aged 20, both of Wellington. They appeared iu the Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with breaking and entering by night and stealing various articles of a total value of £9 6s 6d. Check faced a second charge of converting a motorcycle valued at £BS to his own use. Both accused were remanded on bail till Monday next. It is stated that entrance to the promises was gained through a window following the climbing of a 7-f‘oot iron fence, on top of which is erected three 1 feet of barb wire. When the police arrived both accused were trying to start tho motor-cycle and a chase on foot of one of them followed before ho was caught.

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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 9

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Two Youths on Breaking And Entering Charges Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 9

Two Youths on Breaking And Entering Charges Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 9