BRITAIN'S CRIME WAVE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21649, 20 May 1932, Page 7

BRITAIN'S CRIME WAVE

KING DEEPLY CONCERNED*

LONDON, May 12.

Deeply concerned regarding .the increase in violent crime, the King summoned the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Lord Treiicliard, to Buckingham Palace, and, asking what measures were being taken to cope with the situation, urged that eyeything possible be done to safeguard'life and property. Lord Trenchard detailed his organisation of wireless motor patrols, and the provision of extra plaih-clothesmen in the suburbs, who 'hope to discover tlm bandits’ plans by association with them.” A ghastly family tragedy is reported from Devonshire.

George Yeoman, aged nine, was in hospital at Kingsbridge, recovering from an accident, when a man called to see him, and was.told to return later. He did sp, remaining for about 20 minutes. Then he was to’—’ to leave.

Pulling a double-barrelled gun from beneath his overcoat, the visitor shot the boy twice, clubbed him, and fled, leaving his shattered weapon.

Police then went, to the home of William Yeoman, a farmer, and, finding the doors docked, burst in. In the kitchen they found Mrs Yeoman shot through the head. The daughter Kathleen (10) was found dead in a shed, and the 14-months-old baby was found in another shed.

Yeoman, the father, who is six feet in height, and heavily built, was later seen running across some fields, and was arrested at Marlborough, four miles away. , Frank Cable, labourer, has been charged at Barnes, London, with the attempted murder of Arthur and Sarah Gapp, who were shot on the stairs of their flat at Mortlake.

Cable lived in the flat below the Gapps.