DAYLIGHT ROBBERYT.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 887, 11 May 1903, Page 3

DAYLIGHT ROBBERYT.

Auckland, Saturday. That tho housebreakers and thieves who have been carrying on Jn«r nefarious calling in and about Auckland for somo con , aidorable time are still with us was a am demonstrated on V, ednesday moium.--, . this time by a daring dayhgut wi -> - a residence in Green street (oil u-’* '**;■' J Hoad), I’uusonby. An elderly nva.V, named Mis Cooper, who lives with a UIUU vied son and sleeps in a beuroom overlooking two neighbors houses, left tho -room for sumo little time in tho mornini„. Roturning to is about an hour later, she was surprised to liud herself unablo to oocn the door, and, thinking that- it- had become jammed, she made her way round to tho sido window. Glancing msiue, she found tho room in a state of chaos, and, as the window, left closed when she vacated tho room, was now open, this aroused her suspicions. Returning, she discovc’-ed that the door was locked, and when opened her suspicions were cancirnwd, as a cashbox containing £-0 in -old aii<l a lady’s handbag containing AlOs had disappeared. On a search being made tho missing box and bag were f rn d in the garden, the cashbox having b-won open and tho money extracted,’ while the handbag remained ■unopened. The presumption is that the R..A or thieves gained access to the room by means of tho window, and vvero still •shcro when she returned and .ound hcrsolt -unable to open the door. So far no arrest bias been made.