SMART WORK
BY AUCKLAND CONSTABLE
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
AUCKLAND, This Day
While three men were playing electric torches on the back door of a New Lynn grocery near midnight the police received a telephone call, and within half an hour three young men were arrested on a charge of breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime. The doors of four shops this morning show marks indicating that attempts had been made to force them open with gemmies or screwdrivers. When Constable Boag Teceived the call he set out in a motor car with his twenty-year-old son at the wheel. On reaching the main street the men were working on a gieengrocer's shop. They scattered, but Constable Boag leaped off the car. and after arresting one man bundled him off into the car and doubled back to pick up the other two men.
At Court to-dav Archie Robert Windsor, labourer (23), Anthony Howley, bootmaker (20), and Henry James Boyd, labourer (24), were remanded till the 10th hist.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 February 1930, Page 5
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