CRIMES AND OFFENCES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14337, 1 November 1910, Page 5

CRIMES AND OFFENCES

Press Association —By Tel. —Copyright LONDON, Oct. 30. j Foreigners victimised two London • banks, Drummond's at Charing Cross, < to the extent of £SOO, and Barclay's. , \ ietoria street, to the amount of j L'u'-lu. The operators were different in- ; ilividuals in each case. j RIOT IN BERLIN. ! BERLIN, Oct. 30. j A disturbance in the Northern quar- j tor of the city arose over the disrnhsrd j of a butcher's assistant owing to ins' iate arrival at work. A mob of sere- | ral thousand hooligans and women j attacked the shop at night and peitey \ tin? police with stones. The poiice J charged with drawn swords, wounding i many. The crowd retaliated with beer J bottles, and fragments of balcony rail-' ings. They also sang the ••-Marseillaise," and smashed the street lamps. A BOASTFUL BURGLAR. MELBOURNE, Oct, PI. After an exciting search amongst the roofs, the police arrested a man named j King, hidden in a heap of rubbish 'n j Gaunt and CVs jewellery warehou--.;; ! According to the man's story he t-e- I creted hunseif in the London Supoiy j Stores, and thence after a fruitbss attempt to open the safe, which he ] partly forced, he made his way to Gaunt and Uo.'s. The accidental breaking of a pane of glass roused the caretaker, who brought the police. ving has been only a few months in A us- \ tralia. and claims to have had a ie-| markable career of burglary in .'ling-: land and America, ! COUNTEiH-'P.TT COINS. | Three men were arrested on Flen-! ington racecourse for passing counterfeit money. Ons of them had S'} counterfeit sovereigns in Ins possession. There has lately been a lot of bogus coins in circulation in the T/iri. oi;s States, especially in connection with the big race meetings. RAND WICK MURDER MYSTERY. Received 9.20 p.m., Oct. 31st. SYDNEY, Oct. 31. ■ John Brown, who was arrested in connection with the death of MUs j O'Brien, tlie victim of the R.andwiek j mystery, has been discharged, the j Crown Riithcriiics announcing that , "they had no evidence to offer agairst | hira.