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STRUGGLE WITH . FARMER
ARRESTED MAN IN COURT
[by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION]
CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday
A graphic story of a farmer's fight with a burglar was told before Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., in the Police Court this moraine:, when Daniel Ferguson, aged 51, labourer, was charged with breaking and entering the house of Ben.iamin Joseph Loadbetter, on tho Main South "Road, Styx, with intent to commit a crime. Accused was fur? ther charged with breaking and entering and theft from the warehouse of A. Blackler, at Rangiora, on December 28.
Accused pleaded guilty to breaking into the house at Styx and was committed for sentenco. On the other charge he was committed for trial. B. J. Leadbetter said that when he was awakened by his wife- he went to the pantry and saw a man examining tho shelves. " I grabbed him," ho said, "and we both fell down on tho floor. Later my son arrived. Th« man got away again, but I caught him in a field, when he sprang'at me with what looked liko a knife in his hand. Later the police arrived." A. Blackler, licensee of the Plough Inn, Rangiora, described a theft of liquor from his store. _ He said tho accused had been in his hotril on December 28.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22003, 9 January 1935, Page 10
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