CAPTURE OF BURGLAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 11

CAPTURE OF BURGLAR.

COUNTRY STORE SENSATION. TWO MEN ADMIT OFFENCES. [BT TELEGaA^H. —FB.ESS ASSOCIATION. J DASTCEVIEKE, Friday. Two young men, James Howard Coffin and George Alexander Wilson, who were arrested following the recent burglary sensation at Norsewood, pleaded guilty before justices to-day when charged witfi breaking and entering Culliford 5 store, and with attempted breaking and entering of A. E Boyle's store, 'ihey also admitted procuimg explosives by trespass on a farm and converting a motor-car to Their own use. On the last charge they were sentenced to two month's imprisonment with bard labour. They were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on tlie 01 her charges. At Cuiiiioru's store threp attempts were made to blow open a double safe. When the first charge was being fired the men left the premises, subsequently returning and firing two more charges. When they were disturbed. Wilson boiled, eluding Air. Culliford, who. on returning, closed ■with Coffin, felling him with a Maori paddle. The man submitted when a further blow was threatened. The two accused stele the explosives used from a farm where Coffin had previously worked, and took the motor car from another farm for the purpose of using it on tlieir expedition, but they were unable to start it. The justices commended Mr. Culliford for his plucky capture of Coffin.