BURGLARS ABOUT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 224, 16 June 1919, Page 6

BURGLARS ABOUT

(f. A SUNDAY AFTERNOON AFFAIR

CITY WAREHOUSE ENTERED

Burglars (for it is assumed that mora than one person was concerned) yesterday afternoon entered the premises of Messrs. Magnus, Sanderson, and Co., motor garago proprietors, at the rear of the Grand Opera House. The visitors got in through the workshop window that loots out ou tho stage entrance of the Opera House. The whole place was locked up at the time. The manager, Mr. Bert Sims, had been in in the morning, but had left at noon. The burglars opened six drawers in the workshop, and forced the storeroom door. Prom the storeroom they proceeded across the garage to the office. It is probable that a scout was on the qui vive outside, as the garage is in lull view of the lane by which cars reach Wakefield Street or Manners Street. Arrived in Hie outer office, tho burglars forced open a desk and a number of drawers, then stepped into the manager's office and opened a roll-top desk. They helped themselves to cigars and scattered important documents about.

Mr. Sims stated last evening that so far aj he knew the burglars had not secured any money. All the money on the- premises was in the safe, and the safe was intact.. Ho thought the intruders had done their work in very amateurish .fashion. So far as he could -tell (and he was not in a position to say then just what was missing) they had gone to a good deal of trouble and had secured very little property. They appe'ared to have looked everywhere for money, and to hat'e neglected quite a number of valuable articles that were well within reach.

BURGLARIES AT WANGANUI. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, .Tune 14. Three business premises—the Gasworks office, Matthew Russell's, and the New Zealand Express Company's office—were broken into last evening. In one case 'the burglars entered through an open window. At the gas office drawers were ransacked but nothing was taken. The same thing occurred nt the Express Company's office. The sum of X 7 10?. and a few stamps were taken from Russell's. The poiice believe that the burglaries were the work of youths.

By Telegraph—Special Correspondent. Wangantii, June 14. Wanganui has been immune from the depredations of burglars for several years past, but last night no fewer than three places were visited. One of . these places, was the municipal gasworks office. Entrance was gained by prising open a window. The drawers and cupboards in the room were opened and ransacked, and the contents tossed hither and thither. In the midnight visitor's search for oney nothing, however, was gained there, lor all t lie cash was securely locked up.

Mr. Russell's wholesale stores in Taupo Quay were apparently the next place visited, and with a certain amount of success. The drawers of the omce were ransacked, and a spare set of keys for the cash-box were found. As the result between ,£6 and <£i was taken.

The thief also forced his way into the New Zealand Express Co.'s office. Here, again, every drawer was' broken open and ransacked. This search was evidently conductcd by matehlight, judging by the large number of dead matches found' about the .floor this morning. But it was unsuccessful, the only thing which was missed was-a solitary half-a-crown.