INTO A POLICEMAN'S ARMS.
i [BY , TELEGRAPH.' association.] r Wellington, Sunday. When a night-watchman named Nelson, an employee of the City Council, was on duty on Friday ; night he eepied a man in the yard of the tramway store®. The intruder beat a hasty retreat,sand-the night-watch-man set off in pursuit. Unfortunately for the former he ran into the arms of a policeman. ; While conducting the man back - to the yard a"; second individual was met and taken in charge. A third is said to • have successfully, effected hie escape.
The men arrested gave their names as Norman Christopher arid William Manning. They were , charged in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. W. 6. Riddell, S.M., with stealing \ 20ft of ' insulated '* copper cable, valued at '18s, belonging ~to the city corporation. Both pleaded not guilty, but had nothing' to', say for' themselves. They had never ; before been convicted ' for dishonesty, and His Worship fined each of them 20s, or in default seven days' imprisonment. \
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14080, 7 June 1909, Page 5
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163INTO A POLICEMAN'S ARMS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14080, 7 June 1909, Page 5
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