DARING BURGLARY IN MELBOURNE.

Evening Star, Issue 3047, 23 November 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)

DARING BURGLARY IN MELBOURNE.

Another of those burglaries which have of late been so frequent in Melbourne was perpetrated a fortnight ago. The external evidences give reason for believing that the robbery has been perpetrated by the same parties who committed the four or five extensive and yet undetected robberies in Melbourne within the last few months. Ihe sufierers in the present instance are Messrs Lyell and Brown, of Swanaton street, and perhaps the spoliation af their premises shows an amount of darbg not exceeding any recent attempt. The thief or thieves had entered by the right-of-way from Tittle -Flinders street, and climbed the hack gate leading into Messrs Lyll and Brown’s yard. The back door leading into the premises is a large double folding door, and this was bored through with a tin. auger, so as to admit of a piece being removed largo enough for the passage of a man’s body. One of the folding halves of the door had hsen first operated on ; but as behind it there were a number of bags of salt stored.

that attempt was futile. The thief was not, however, daunted, and transferred his intentious to the other half of the door, and so obt iined ingress. He must then have selected his stock for removal, and his taste was of a homogeneous cast, for he appropriated flour, soap, brandy, tobacco, tea, and numerous other articles. There were in the yard two drays belonging to the firm, and in the stable two horses. The thief loaded a dray, harnessed a horse into it, and drove away between six and seven o’clock in the presence of some of the neighbors, who did not susp ct anything wrong. After the dray was loaded and all ready, the fellow put up against the doors outside a couple of boxes to hide the holes he had made, and, breaking eff the inside padlock, opened the gats and drove away. The thief calculated his chances well, as he left the premises and drove through the streets at a time when the night and day men were changing, and when be would be the least likely to be observed by anyone.