DETECTIVES' COUP.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 13 August 1926, Page 10

DETECTIVES' COUP.

GREAT POLfCE EXPLOIT. By Tcloirrxiih —Prcta J.sisod/.tioa AUCKLAND, August 11. A coup war; made by Sydney doteei tives when they arrested throe, Italians in a city bank as they were about to i commence safe-breaking operations on j the strongroom, containing £9OOO in ■ notes. • This is acknowledged to have been the greatest police exploit in New 1 South Wales fo’-‘ many years and it has I a peculiar interest to the Auckland • detective itaff.

j The leader of the clever gang, nick- . named “the King,”- and two others, I were in Auckland last year, when they , were shadowed by detectives and Inter detained and finger printed. . Tlieir finger prints were subsequently Kent across Ihe Tasman to the Australian Criminal Investigation Department.. _ The safe in the Farmers’ Union Trading, Company was blown open in • August of last year, when cash and ' cheques to the value of £SOO woe , stolen. : Lately anolher safe was dynamited in ; the office of Mersrs Mon-in and Een- ■ wir.-k. the burglars lotving behind them a huge sale breaking-implement make of steel and resembling in shape a tin opener This was taken possession of by det. cedive Moon, wlm was investigating the at the time, and it is now in the nolicojmispum at dmkland station. ' “ Tho King” and his two confederates were detained hero afterwards hut were subsequently released, as the’ evidence against them was considered too I weak to prosecute. However their finger . prints were taken. They were last ,heard of in Auckland, in October last ■ /from here they went across to Sydney.’