BURGLARS IN AUCKLAND.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1686, 28 February 1913, Page 5

BURGLARS IN AUCKLAND.

HOTEL ROBBERIES. / (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent ) Auckland, February 27. .No arrest has'yet been made in Conneci tion-.with tho sensational Tobbory of gneats at the Grand Hotel. ■ _ News of another affair of the same kind, though ontailmg rmueji less; loss upon, the .victims, has just- come to hand. 1 It appears that during - the. early hours of FebriiaW If-last, a: .thief ransacked' three rooms, at the Star,-Pofel, including one occupied by :Mr., E. ,M. Baird, district telegraph engineer. This gentleman was not victimised,vbut two ,or three : other boarders .wero. .The extent of-the"mid-' ■ ( night prowlers' xoward being about J25 in loose cash and several small. articles of . jewellery; -•. -, Tho fact that information regarding these cases -robbery is habitually suppressed by, the pojice, and that the public - ■have to .depend on the news-getting ; ability of the reporters of the daily papors," is creating some comment. ' The opinion is , very i generally expressed that had " the . nowa of ■ the- robberies at the Star and Central Hotels been disclosed, tho Grimd • Hotel thief might, have been less , ful, as those jobbed ;might have been more : on their guard.:. It may be recalled that j tho capture of the burglars who broke ■ into -Kohn's'jewellery'* J establishment ' iii Auckland a year or'two ago wttd eutirei Jv due to'the, account published-in the • ' Herald" attracting the notice of >an fixemployeo He read of tho, affair simultaneously with : :i . the -arrest of the 'guilty parties"by the .; JFnsco..polico pn .suspicion of being illegal- . Jy-In possession of jewellery, which they . were busy pawning. >■'