ARRESTS MADE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21553, 26 July 1933, Page 8

ARRESTS MADE

MEN OUTSIDE SHOP PREMISES BROKEN INTO . SACKS FULL OF GOODS RESIDENT WARNS POLICE Tho alertness of a Mount Albert resident and the promptness of the police resulted in a smart capture being made last night of two. men on a charge of breaking and entering tho grocery shop of Mr. C. H. Cornish, 75 Taylor Road, Mount Albert. The polico recovered threo sacks full of tinned goods and cigarettes. Tho suspicious movements of two men, who appeared to he loitering in tho doorway of the shop, attracted the notice of a resident at about 10 o'clock. He telephoned the central polico station and explained the reasons for his suspicions. A inotor-car, carrying Detectives Stevenson, Mahood and Whitehead and Constable Ross, was speeding to Mount Albert a minute after the telephone message had been received, and a few minutes later the four officers jumped out of the car and arrested two men. The front door of tho shop was open when tho police arrived. A pane of glass in the front door had been broken, as well as the glass in a side door. In both cases a quantity of treacle had been smeared over the glass to deaden any sound while they were being broken. It would appear that, having broken tho glass, the key of one of the doors had been turned from the inside. Tho two men will bo charged in the Polico Court this morning.