STOLEN CAR

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19961, 20 November 1934, Page 6

STOLEN CAR

WIRELESS AIDS IN ITS RECOVERY TWO ARRESTS MADE By Telegraph—Press Association WANGANUI, November 19. Wireless as a means of tracing stolen motor vehicles has again proved of value to the police, and as a result of an accurate description of a car stolen from Mangaonoho, near Hunterville, being broadcast at 10 o’clock to-day’ the vehicle was discovered in Wanganui and two young men were apprehended. They will appear on charges arising from an illicit journey from Petone through the Wairarapa up to Taihape, to Hihitahi, across to Ohakune, back to Karioi. and then down the Wangehu Valley Road via Mangamahu to Wanganui. At 10.30 p.m. on Saturday a touring car was stolen from Mr A. Penny, Randwick Road, Petone, It was driven through the Wairarapa and found abandoned at Mangaonoho on Sunday. At 9 o’clock on Sunday night a car belonging to Mrs Elizabeth Mclntyre, of Mangaonoho, was removed from the garage near her house. It was driven north through Mangaweka, Utiku and Taihape to Hihitahi. At that point a store owned by Mr Brophy was broken into and a quantity of cigarettes and some money stolen. Later the car was seen at Ohakune, where the Ohakune police gave chase. The stolen vehicle proved too fast, however, and headed back towards Karioi. At 9 o’clock this morning a description of Mrs Mclntyre’s car was broadcast from 2YA and at 10 o’clock the vehicle was discovered in a vacant section on Durie Hill, Wanganui. Detectives J. Walsh and L. Packman were placed in charge of the inquiries, and about mid-day arrested two young men who are to appear in Court charged with unlawfully converting two cars to their own use and breaking and entering the Hihitahi store.