CITY BURGLARIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 17 December 1912, Page 6

CITY BURGLARIES.

CHINESE SHOP CLBABBD,OF £65.

Daring the past three weeks a numbel of burglaries have boon committed in Wellington. Early in the morning of November 28 the shop of a Chinese named Kwonri On, at the corner of Wallace Street and Ecllo3ton Street, was entered and tho till forced open. About £1 sb. in pennies and a couple of dozen packets of cigarettes were stolen. On tho night of November 29, tho grocer's shop of Andrew Bogg, in Tarannki Street, was entered, and twenty pounds of tobacco, a tin of biscuits, and a watch were stolen. On Sunday night,.. December 8, Ye Wah's shop, at the corner of Vivian and Taranaki Streets, was forced open, and about .£BS was stolen, also about 24 packets of cigarettes.' Entrance was effected by breaking'' off the two back doors, evidently with a "jemmy." The cases v:ere; put in the hands of Detective-Sergeant Cassells, of Mount Cook Police Station, and Detective Mason, of Lambton Quay, and last night they arrested a man and charged him with 'having committed the offences.. They also arrested another man, whom they charged with having received the twenty pounds of tobacco while 1 knowing it to be stolen.