JEWEL THIEVES ACTIVE
RAIDS IN AUCKLAND HAULS VALUED AT £BOO (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The police believe that an experienced gang of jewel thieves is operating in Auckland Last night thieves forced the back door of the shop of Ernest McFeat, a manufacturing jeweller, in Karangahape road and stole almost the whole stocks, valued at between £650 and £7OO, including hundreds of gold rings and gold and silver wristlet and pocket watches.
On Monday night, thieves entered the shop of A. and G. Hutchinson, watchmakers and jewellers, Queen’s Arcade and stole jewellery valued at £IOO and £5 in cash. They left no outward signs of their entrance and it is believed that a skeleton key was Used. The lost property includes 51 rings and 24 wristlet watches. Last night the premises of W. Parkinson and Company, monumental masons, Victoria street west, was broken into and all the rooms and offices ransacked.
It was discovered this morning that a hole had been burnt in the floor by the burning of dislodged documents. The thieves stole £5 in cash but overlooked a cashbox containing other money.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20042, 14 September 1939, Page 7
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