ARREST ON IRISH TRAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 17

ARREST ON IRISH TRAIN

TWO MEN FOR TRIAL (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, Dec. 21. Miss Lilian Turner, manageress of a laundry in New King’s road, Fulham, described at the West London Police Court how she threw a parcel at a man who. she alleged, snatched a bag containing over £4OO. Peter Murphy, aged 34, of no fixed home, and Thomas Walsh, aged 28, of Parsons Green. Fulham, salesmen, who were arrested on the Irish mail train at Rossi are Harbour, were committed for trial, charged with stealing from a shop counter on- November 12 a bag containing £414. Thev were also charged with breaking into a jeweller’s shop at Salisbury pavement, Dawes road, Fulham, 9 1 * November 10, and stealing 24 wrist watches, valued at £2B. Miss Turner said that the cashier called at her branch shop and placed his bag on the counter. “A man. who, I think, was Murphy, entered the shop and handed me; a parcel,” she added. “I saw him glance at the cashier, and I realised that something was wrong, I screamed, and the man snatched the bag. ‘‘l flung the parcel at him. hoping to knock the bag out of his hand. The cashier and I chased _ him and saw him jump into a waiting motor car which drove off.” At a previous hearing It was alleged that the two men obtained an order to view an empty flat next door to the jeweller’s shop in Dawes road, and gained access to the shop by boring - a hole in the party wall. . . The stolen watches were stated to have been found in an attache case under a seat of the Irish boat train.