OVERCOAT THEFT LEADS TO ARREST OF SUSPECT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19108, 28 June 1930, Page 9

OVERCOAT THEFT LEADS TO ARREST OF SUSPECT.

(Special to the “Star”) AUCKLAND, June 27. On April 29 a cashbox containing cash, bonds and cheques of a total value of £6OO was stolen from -the office of Levi and Jackson, barristers and solicitors, Wellington. A suspect has been arrested in Auckland and will appear at the Police Court to-morrow. The manner in which the suspect was arrested was rather unusual. Yesterday afternoon Mr Alexander Gill, a clothier, of Pukekohe, discovered that a man’s overcoat was missing from his shop. He then remembered having seen two men loitering near his premises earlier in the day. Mr Gill, suspecting that the two men had something to do with the disappearance of the overcoat, and that they had boarded a bus leaving for Auckland, telephoned to the Newmarket police. Late yesterday afternoon Constable Henry stopped the bus as it was passing through Newmarket to the city, and arrested Frederick Davis, aged thirtyeight, a tunneller, and John Valvai (30), a dentist, on a charge of theft

of the coat. Both were remanded at the Police Court this morning This afternoon the detectives recognised one of the accused as a man suspected of the theft of the cashbox in Wellington, and he will be charged with that theft at the Police Court tomorrow morning.