WOMAN LOSES £500

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 232, 28 June 1944, Page 6

WOMAN LOSES £500

' Money Taken During TenMinute Absence (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 27. A daring robbery was carried out in the citv shortly after 5.45 p.m. yesterday, when £5OO in bank-notes was stolen from the premises of a home cookery business on the first floor of Alston Chambers. Queen Street. The money belonged to an elderly woman. Miss Frances Bell, who had recently sold the business. It was in £5 notes, excepting a small sum in £lO notes, and represented the proceeds of the sale of the business. Miss Bell had recently visited Cambridge, taking the money witli her. with the intention of paving off a mortgage on a house she owned there, but her solicitor had advised her againfct making an immediate payment. She returned to Auckland with tlie money last evening and went to a room attached to the home cookery. Just before the burglary she left the money in an attache case, locked the door and crossed Queen Street, to make a small purchase, being absent 10 minutes. On returning she found that a panel of the door had been broken and the lock released from inside, and all the money taken.