EARLY MORNING ARREST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 November 1930, Page 5

EARLY MORNING ARREST

FOUR MEN IN A CAR ALLEGED BREAKING AND ENTERING (By Telegraph—Press Association) NAPIER, This Day. The early morning arrest of four men n a motor car on the Taradale road •ecently was recalled in the Supreme lourt when Allan Arthur Mclntosh, Ronald Hugh Mclntosh, James Richard Uameron and Frederick Quin were barged with attempting to break and inter the premises of the Hawkes Bay farmers’ Co-op. Association at Waipucurau, and wjth having in their posseslion housebreaking instruments, also a ihotgun.and cartridges and a crowbar. Ml four accused pleaded not guilty. Mr lustice Blair was on the bench. Mr C. ff. Nash represented A. A. Mclntosh, md Mr. S. Avrill the other three. • According to the Crowd’s statement Vlr L. G. Harker, manager of the firm ’oncerned, in company with W. J. T. porburn, * disturbed the men at 1.20 j’clock on the morning of 21st September. When challenged three men leapt )ver a fence and drove away, in a waiting car. At 3.30 o’clock on the same nornjng a party of police ambushed .at sVestshor4 and intercepted the car, one )f the four passengers in which was engaged in changing a tyre. The Crown illeged that accused Quin ran away as ihe police approached, but he was jaught. None of the accused, except >ne of the Macintoshes, who asked ‘What’s the matter?” answered interrogations by the police. The police, it a alleged, identified the'crowbar found in the, yard of the Farmers’ premises as me that had been stolen, and found imong the cartridges one. filled with Harker said he used a duck gun in effectually challenging the men he tiad seen near the Farmers’ premises. He fired a shot into the ground. Another witness gave evidence that tyre marks left near the Farmers’ premises were identical with marks that .would be made by the tyres on the car intercepted by the police at Westshore. The Crown’s case closed with the hearing of formal evidence of the arrest.