POLICE SURROUND AUCKLAND HOTEL.
THOUGHT EMPLOYEE WORKING ON ROOF WAS “ CAT ” BURGLAR. (Special to the “ Star.”) AUCKLAND, June 17. Excitement ran high in the vicinity of the Commercial Hotel, High Street, between seven and eight o’clock last evening, when the police surrounded the building . :der the assumption that an employee on the roof, who was cleaning a chimney, was a “ cat ” burglar. Upon descending to the lower part of the building the man was informed that the detectives awaited him, but the situation was quickly explained. In the meantime passers-by in the street below were compelled to take i more than casual interest in the proceedings. A friend of the employee who was waiting for him at the corner of Shortland and High Streets was questioned as t the reason for his presence there, and an eye-witness stated that several other people making their way past the hotel were detained until all suspicion had been removed. At one stage the situation held all the elements of a police sensation of the first order and speculation. “ I wonder whether he is armed?” was ittered in all seriousness.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18787, 17 June 1929, Page 9
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