More Info →"A Speedy Recovery" Stolen Items Returned to Shopkeeper

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 7 January, 1964. "At 7 a.m. today, Mr A. L. Hughes, the proprietor of the Watchpost jewellery shop on the top floor of the P.D.C., reported to the Palmerston North police that his shop had been broken into and a considerable amount of stock had been stolen. At 8.20 a.m., a matter of one hour and 20 minutes, detectives had detained a man, and the property had been recovered. Mr Hughes is seen making an inventory of his recovered stock."

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Date

January 6, 1964

Digitisation ID

2017N_2017-20_018279

Format

B&W negative