TOBACCONISTS ROBBED

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 53, 31 August 1926, Page 10

TOBACCONISTS ROBBED

NO FINGERMARKS FOUND

CIGAEETTES AND MONEY

STOLEN.

Two more burglaries took place in the city over the week-end. Thieves broke into Mr. C. Harris's tobacconist shop in Manners street on Saturday night, and took from £5 to £X worth of cigarettes, and on Sunday night the premises of Mr. S. Davey, ladies' hairdresser and tobacconist, at 163, Cuba street, wore entered, and about £20 in cash and goods were stolen.

To enter Mr. Davey's premises, the thieves scaled a 6£t wall at the rear of tho shop, removed a pieco of glass in a door, and, reaching the lock, opened it without difficulty. Two razors, worth 28s, as well as other requisites, to a total value of £6, were removed from the saloon, and as many cigarettes as could bo found. Prom the office £12 10s in notes and silver was taken. This money was the proceeds of the sale of art union tickets. The robbers apparently made off by the same way as they camp, after having, seemingly, abandoned an attempt to get to the front of the promises because they heard people moving upstairs.

A fence at the rear of Mr. Harris's was also sealed, and the ahop was entered by smashing a window near the latch. With from £5 to £6 worth of cigarettes, the thieves decamped through the front door. No money had been left in the shop, and most of the stock was under lock and key. The ladies upstairs, which contains some valuable articles, was not entered. A blurred mark of a rubber glove on a mirror which was lying on the floor of Mr. Davey's shop, and the marks of rubber-heeled shoes on the floor, were the only clues the police found when they visited the premises. In the case of Mr. Harris's shop, not even any finger-prints were observable.