THIEVES MAKE BIG HAUL

Chronicle (Levin), 14 August 1946, Page 8

THIEVES MAKE BIG HAUL

-Press Association

DARING WELLINGTON BURGLARY

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WELLINGTON, August 13. A liaul valued at over £1500 was made by thieves wlio entered the adjoining premises of Fitzgerald Eros, and the engineering department of the Fleteher Construction Company in Wakefield Street late on .Monday night or in the early hours of this morning. Entry was not notieed nntil the first employees arrived sliortly after 7.00 a.m. todav, when the poliee were notiiied. The thieves loaded all the stolen material wliieh included 50 tvres from Fitzgerald Bros, two eleetrie motors, a vibrator motor, tools and battery eharger, the propertv of the Fleteher Construction Company, 011 to a threeton tip-truck also owned by the same lirm, and drove it out of the alleyway leading from Fleteher 's yard to AYake field Street. It is probable the stormy conditions then prevailing lielped to assist them as the fact tliat the gatc was Jeft swung open, eould liave been the result of the high wiwi Entry was apparently made by the gatc into Fleteher 's yard. The intruders then proceeded to force a door leading into Fleteher 's workshop. llere they made use of a small kerosene lamp be longing to the workshop, to examine ti . door leading to the office oi tio manager, Mr. T. Sauuders. They broki in and made a thorougli examiwition of the desk from whieh they took micrometers and other instruments. No monev liad been lel't in the oflice. Fitzgerald Bros.' premises, whieh is a service station adjoining the tvre depot, were entered by elimbjng through a window leading on to a small partition be.tween Ihe two ImiMing'' and shattering a window of the la\a tory in the tvre store. In addition to taking about 30 new tvres and 2:; newly re-treaded tvres valued at abont £500, the thieves .ransaeked the drawers of the office desk in the tvre depart ment and then forced the door whieh joins the offiee to the service station offiee. There was no muney to be taken from either otlice lml the thieves left papers strewn about. There was evidenee that efforts liad also been made.to start an 8 h.p. English car belonging to the company in Fleteher 's yard but its carlmrettor was out of order so the attempt failed. Howcver. the rear compartment of the car was forced and the spare tvre removed. A tarpaulin was also missing l'rom Fleteher 's yard and it is supposed this was used to cover the load 011 the truek. Suspicious eireumstances attach to the fact that a piece of blanket was found hanging on the door to Fleteher 's ' -Oi Ihe" floor was a piece of Vidiarred: brown paper. Next door to the offi.ee is , the t'uel store hontaining petrol : and oil. ;-' '

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