BURGLARY IN OTAHUHU

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 1

BURGLARY IN OTAHUHU

HOTEL STOREROOM VISITED CAUGHT IN THE ACT The noise made by a man ransacking a store room of the Criterion Hotel, Otahuhu, at 2 a.m. yesterday was the cause of his capture. Mr. William O’Brien, an at the hotel, was awakened from his sleep by the barking of a dog. On making investigations Mr. O’Brien heard the forcing of a door, and awakening Mr. Charles Nicholson, a son of the proprietor, they notified Constable Wilson, who, making inquiries, found a man in the store room with a number of bottles of beer in a sugar bag ready for removal. The man was arrested. A visit paid by the police to a camp at the back of a farm in Papatoetoe resulted in two dozen bottles of beer and half a dozen tumblers being recovered. These were apparently the spoil of previous visits. This morning Olaf Christian Karlson, aged 53 years, appeared before Mr. C. H. Hope-Johnson, J.P., at the Otahuhu Police Court on a charge of theft and was remanded till December 4.