Daring Burglaries in Melbourne

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 30, 25 August 1887, Page 3

Daring Burglaries in Melbourne

"One or twbjiery daring burglaries^ : Jjave ibeen jcommittedf duringrtfee -weielc^ and the mode-adopted in each cas'e^ sUuws ftfeat : ai weU'Orgdnisod banVl is at work. As in former cases, 1 the burglars begin by/ stealing J& horad and a cart with which to carry- off- the tbopty i t -i On iFnday; night 'the * ma[nse| of iiie Eey . A. Y!uUe the pastor, of f ! feiiie Church; Euthdown street, ' Carlton, was entered aj^d a large iron safe w%liing Jprobabg about' 3<swt, \^as v earried '' 'away, .together with other properly'; ink go' quietly and , expedi^ "tiously'waa i this'dbhe; that the; family and servants asleep, i^^e' HtfUse kne^ . nbthing of the 'visitation morning, wHen they<f bund the house,; broken open .and' ransacked, and the property gone. The safe contained however; nbthing but a' chklice and a silver plated articled used jin the Communipn Service pt the chur6h; and 'Some oid'bic^ks containing church recordsV . ; A who lives next; door : hear 4' ,'a^.vehicle;; , drawn, ([by j ahorse stpp; in : , iihej street- rabbut 3 o'clock in the morningj and this no doubt, was*, the one used burglars. Notw ithstandingi their. daritig and cleverness the robbers "must' have been favoured with imprb than ian 1 . pJE'gbbd; 'fortune jto carry out their enterprise jundetected, f6r there is a gas lamp , in ;^uw' street almost opposite_the manse. It has ■.since transpired that at an; early hour ,on<theksame night another daring attempt^a|ymad6j but the; robbers' .were idisturbedv -The place on- which the descenfci "was 1 made wag >a 1 pawnshop kept by Mrs Ann Maladoergs{who was Wakened about '"'two 1 b*cl^BK "iby. .^tue violent barMng of a little dug in the f shppy abbye . f^j^ii f ,'hjfr.'';|iH||s»oii^ jis eituatedi She gbtiup and looked out of th^e window into Queensberry street. Theffeshe; saw -a choree andvcart with a man keeping^i^hi She then \to ihe> back and in the^ardS'sh'e' gaw a man feeding the watch dog. with opens. ' She heard someq^ejmojving m ithe^shopjandj.iminediatdy {r^shld co, '.the f^ont^XEiJbw:-; and .^a^e v dflf<«f the police" Her cries "were quickly, &s*-[ ponded to .by, two- policemen who were in Madeline street near the ieordner pf Ctiiebnsberry street. They^ ran; quickly wdi^^^^te^^foFthejrobbbrff at' the sound of flic klarin made i off . "The man in charge of the cart jumped into it and drove quickly away, and the others nfade.toet? escape/- The watch" 4p^ .was ,b y the x ineajt, j^iven him,, but" the jncesßttnt barking, ot a terrier 'woke Mrs i Mandelberg^ " In the shop was a large iron safe, which contained about j£so« worth ofgeweltery.The itote*n^grsejatfd,cart ; were^ftfcandoneid as soon as done with and have been rrestprfcd to' tlieif.ow.nerg.