BURGLARIES IN CHRIST. CHURCH.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1045, 28 April 1882, Page 3

BURGLARIES IN CHRIST. CHURCH.

Five shops were burglariously broken into on Friday night last and the following goods etc., were stolen : Montague's fancy bazaar, over £IOO worth of jewellery ; Wilkinson’s bnot depot, bouts valued at £3 ; Lake’s bookseller's shop, goods and cash to the value of £5 : Oakey’s, tobacconist, pipes and casli valued at £3 ; Banks’s china shop, cash £l.

The heaviest losers are Montague, who by latest telegrams estimate their loss at over £2OO, The valuables that have been taken include diamond rings, silver earrings and pencil cases, wedding rings and keepers gold brooches, silver sleeve links, &c. The premises were closed on Friday night at 10 minutes to 10 o’clock. Mr Montague, who does not live on the premises, arrived at h ; s shop a out 10 minutes past 9 in the morning, and immediately discovered that something was amiss, the back door being open, and the shop cases on the counter having evidently been ransacked. Two shops next door were also entered, and another a little lower down from which a couple of pipes and £0 in cash were taken. All these premises are in High Street, and are approached from the back by a right-' f way. The thieves then went away a block or two and forced open Mr Bank’s corn store. They did not get much, as they missed a parcel of silver lying on a window lodge, and a valuable cheque received late in the day Mr Banks had taken the precaution to cross, so the thieves were dissapointed and bad to leave it. The safe they could not open. At Wilkb son's boot shop one of the burglars helped himself to a now pair ot hoots, and as he was foolish enough to leave his old ones behind the detectives will probably not have much trouolo in following up tiie clue It is stated that the police suspect the robbery of a safe at the Black Horse Hotel to be the work of the same individual «ho committed the robbery at the Terminus Hotel about two years ago, when somebody walked off with a safe in broad daylight. Hitherto the police have not boon able to get any evidence, though the robber is known, or at any rate suspected.