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m;ALLEN; STREET,,
■. .A',-:little;': before,, midnight. 'on . -Thursday. nightman; attempts was. , - made\ to break into Messrs;; ■ Ban'natyne■,'and Hunter's' premises at thojoorner'of;Allen^and-Yittoria-Streeta: ;It~ : appear^''..that;' John. Sheedy,-. w,aichman; waf; going, Tound s the"froit marketel-in-. : . t'nat vicinity' when • attention was ■.'attracted .by-,"* a '.sound of '"irashing 'glass! ■-,' Hβ ' has.toned'in the directioii from which tho sound came;, : andj i seeingviwo <men ■ \i-alkirig" : froiu Mesirs. 'Bannatyna ;> and\Huntcr.' s '.warehouse towards;' 1 Tβ';Arp Railway-Station,;, he.;.blew' a'■ whistle,; ■, which-, brought Constable'. T.' l Mah6noy ; and.iaftorwards; Sergeant. M.'Croriej of. the Mount Cook. Police' Station, on/tlie sceno'. ; '; He i constable i and Sh'ce'dy/ searched round the,;station, and tho dock-site for the men, but could not "find" them. -..';•■'■ , An- ; ;examination , - of;' the cloisod, that-two , padlocis had been removed frbm'.the: front door by means of skeleton keys, but'a -Yale.-lock had barfed further progress.-The men thenf evidently,attempted to 'burst tho door in with a pickaxe, wnich wa.s found on , the, step. After., this.' thev •bad apparently, attempted to gain ingress at the; rear- Jof ; tho : building', and .-■ it was ; the window there' that -had tracted attention..'■-•.Tpe-.'warehpuEe .contained a .valuable''stock, a "quantity of silverware being on;the premises. .-', ' ;. ./■.".-■■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 562, 17 July 1909, Page 3
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185ATTEMPTED BURGLARY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 562, 17 July 1909, Page 3
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