CONSTABLE'S ALERTNESS
ARREST OF TWO MEN ALLEGED THEFTS FROM STORE [bv telegraph—press association] FOXTON, Tuesday Smart work on the part of Constable 11. Owen was responsible for the arrest of two men on a charge of breaking and entering two Levin drapory establishments during the week-end. Constablo Owen noticed two women arrive at Foxton in a taxicab with five suit cases. His suspicions were aroused when later in the day they were joined by two men, who arrived by service car. The strangers deposited the bags in a local fruit shop and went off. Constable Owen communicated with the police at Levin, and it is alleged that a search of the bags revealed property which was missing from the Levin shops. Subsequently two men were arrested on the highw.ay two miles north of Foxton. In tho Police Court at Levin, beforo justices of the peace, Bernard Cummings, aged 21, and Garth Durrant, aged 24, were charged with breaking and entering tho premises of J. E. Wallace and W. Davie, at Levin. They were remanded to appear in Wellington.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21583, 30 August 1933, Page 11
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