SAFE BLOWING

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 274, 20 December 1929, Page 8

SAFE BLOWING

Per Press Association.

POLICE MAKE J51PORTAXT ARREST. V1G1L OF OFFICERS REM'ARDED.

DUXEDIX, Lasfc night. • On Tuesday evening a man, who now awaits his O'ial, attracted the attention oi' the police and investigations theu made produced a fairly good circumstantial case against liim. A close watch was kept 011 his movements day and night, and early this morning he was aecosted iq the yard of a cit-y premises bv a constable who was not satisfied hy the explanation of his presence there. He tvas taken into eustody. Detectives continued their inquiries, and as a rcsiilt the prisoner will appear be--fore the citv Police C'ourt on Monday morning to answer a series of six charges which cover all the crimes of breaking and entering and theft that have heen reported in respect to local offices and shops during the past few weeks. It is also repotted hy the police that the ofi'ehces of salehreaking reported from Christchurch have all heen accounted for with tlie exception of one. The* man arrestecl is a native of Glasgow who came to this country ahout four years ago and who up till ahout six or seven weeks ago was engaged as a coal miner in one of the AYest Coast mines, which should not prove a had 'training ground for one interested in the use of explosives. Tlris arrest brings to an end a particular system of investigation and close watch ing which the police department was conipelled to adopt in order to put a jiet'iod to the activities of the safe hreaker. One of the special steps taken was >the distrihution over the eity and subwrbs of a strong eompany of plain clothes meu. whose duty it was to watch and wait, keeping .dose watch on all niidnight and early morning prowlers, whose appearance gavre rise to the slightest suspicion. As 'a result of the vigilance of these officers and tlie literal manner in which their instructions were carried out not a few harmless househoklers making their wnv homeward late were aecosted and asked to giv-e an aeeount of themselves or of the contents of any hag they miglit l>e carrying.