EXCITING CAPTURE

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1934, Page 6

EXCITING CAPTURE

MIDNIGHT METHVEN ADVETJTUKE. ALLEGED THIEF FOUND IN STORE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Ashburton, Last Night. The township of Lyndhurst in the Methven district was the scene of an exciting capture last night when a young Christchurch man was found in a local store allegedly with a quantity of goods placed ready for removal.' A resident, Mr. Errol Stewart, who was going to the store to post a letter, saw a man leaving the vicinity. After going two miles he decided to return, calling upon a neighbour, Mr. T. Gray, who took a gun. Mr. Stewart’s sister accompanied the men. They drove a car up to the store without a light and then turned on the switch, illuminating the interior of the store and revealing the man inside. Miss Stewart pluckily volunteered to go 200 yards to rouse the owner, Mr. Polkinghome, and his son, despite the fact that the night was pitch dark and it was not known if the intivder had accomplices. In the meantime Messrs Knox and Cook joined the others. Mr. Polkinghorne entered but the man made no resistance when he saw Mr. Gray's gun. He was subsequently arrested by the Methven constable.

The man is alleged to have driven from the city in, a car, having a bicycle to carry goods from the store' to it. The delivery van had been stripped and goods were stacked in a dark comer.