DASTARDLY CRIMES.
GOOD WORK OF POLICE.
HARD PROBLEM SOLVED.
PRAISE BY MAGISTRATE.
[BT TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHURCH* Thursday.
At the conclusion of the hearing of the charges against the brothers Charles Robert Gray and James Wilfred Gray, the presiding magistrate, Mr. E. D. Mosley, said: "We have come to the end of the hearing of a series of charges that are remarkable in the history of Christchurch, and which comprise a tale of dastardly crime.
" I feel it my duty to express the thanks of the Bench to the police and to counsel for the expeditious manner in which they have aided the hearing of the trial so far.
"I also wish to congratulate the police on solving the great problems which beset them. I realise that they were up against great difficulties. I am happy to say that, no matter how hard their task is, they generally get there in the end.
"This time their success was due to the initiative of Constable Gillum in making the arrest, and the ability and thoroughness shown by the detectives in their searching inquiries. It is a matter for congratulation that the community is now rid, for the time being at any rate, of two young men who not only endangered property, but, as has been shown, people's lives as well."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20465, 17 January 1930, Page 13
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