CITY BURGLARY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1491, 13 July 1912, Page 6

CITY BURGLARY.

LITTLEJOHN'S WORKSHOP ALSO VISITED. A QUEER CRIME. On investigation by daylight yesterday morning, it was discovered that the three men who ransacked Messrs. 0., Hill and Son'e shop on Lambton Quay lato en Thursday night had obtained entrance at the back of tho premises from tlie bank behind, from which a ladder led to the roof of tho firm's factory. This would give fairly easy access to the windows u> thie head of tho big stairway at tho back of tho shop. Doubtless tho men who escaped got away by the 6amo means. Mr. E. J. Hill states that the thieves took the sum of 3s. 3d. from a tobacco tin in tho cashier's drawer, and a low stamps from the same place, but strangely enough the money—just 3s. 3d.—was found on the floor of Mr. E. J. Hill's office, from which placedhe men first, attempt^ , to mako their exit. All that they could say definitely was missing was a few ehirts, and the coat and hat which Martin Tier (the captured man) was wearing when arrested. The thieves did , not only find their way into Messrs. Hill's, but traces of them were discovered in the workshop c. Messrs. Littlejohn and Sons, a structure on the bank-side at the rear of the City Buffet Hotel, and adjoining the back premises of Messrs. Hill and Sons, They gained an entrance to the place by breaking a glass panel in the door; Insido aro benches used for scientific instrumenthiaking, and a large variety of tools. Nothing was touched there, save a steel armrest, a tool the thieves used (and broke) as a jemmy to force open an inner door, only to find that it led to r.owhere, as the littlo workshop is cut off from' the front premises, save that thero are steps leading down to the rear of the - Citj Buffet. The supposition, is that, the n:ort fancied they wero in' Hill's, and were trying to. mako their way into the shop when they discovered their mistake, and rectified it.