INTRUDER OVERPOWERED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 283, 3 December 1935, Page 8

INTRUDER OVERPOWERED

SHOPKEEPER’S STRUGGLE MAN HANDED OVER TO POLICE i Per Press Association. J AUCKLAND, Dec. 2. An intruder who was surprised be lind the counter of a shop in Hurstlucre Road, Takapuna, early to-night .as overpowered by the occupier of th< •hop after a brief struggle and wa-w-Li until the police arrived. The shopweeper, Mr. E. Selwyn, a middle-agec nan. suffered no injury in the encoun er. but he was considerably shaken a i result. Air. Selwyn’-; suspicions were souscc »y the behaviour of the young man 11 • 6.30 and nade conversation for some time eventually Mr. Selwyn announced hi> Mention of having dinner, and left th# hop by a door that leads to the billiard oom at the lack. After watching f he oung man go out into the street, once n trie billiard room Air. Selwyn looked >ack through a glass panel into the h«>p and was surprised to see the mar behind the tobacco counter and ben i ing over the till, which was open. H immediately rushed back into the sho} md grapple.! with the man, who made d'H’t resistance. After a brief struggle r which he narrowly missed sever# dows on the face, Mr. Selwyn sue •eeded in overpowering the man, whon le held prostrate behind the counter He < ailed f-.r his daughter to summor he police and was still holding the inruder when a constable arrived a few iii’.:;*.-- Liter .-. ,i.] took him in charge.