ALLEGED THEFT OF PETROL.
WELLINGTON, September 11. A sensational arrest was effected at Wellington early this morning by Detective Mason and Mr Levvy, accountant for Mr J. E. Fitzgerald, motor garage proprietor. For some time past goods have been disappearing mysteriously from the garage. For four nights Mason and Levvy kept watch. At 5.15 this morning a motor catdrove up. The door of the garage was opened, evidently by a duplicate key, and a man entered. Mason and Levvy waited until the man had a case of petrol on his shoulder, and the former presented a revolvfr. The intruder offered no resistance. it-.? gave his name as John Alfred Shirley, a taxi-driver, and at. the Magistrate's Court to-day he was charged on two counts with the '.heft of petrol. The case was adjourned, bail being allowed in £2OO, and two sureties of £2OO.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3261, 13 September 1916, Page 37
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