MONEY STOLEN
WANGANUI HOTEL BURGLARS' AUDACIOUS THEFT. (Per Press Association — Copyright.) WANGANUI, July 3. An audacious burglary wais perpetrated at the Federal Hotel early this morning, thieves rifling the ®afle and office and decamping with silver and ■notes worth considerably over one hundred- sterling. A bunch-of beys was stolen from the bedroom of the proprietress, Mrs Mary Bethune, white she slept. A man hid under her bed, presumably before ten o’clock on Saturday night, and watched her retro and place her keys under 'a cushion. When she was asleep, he took the keys and then unlocked the bedroom door, and let himself out, and he had easy access to the office and the safe on the ground floor.
When the porter came on duty on Sunday morning, he found the front and the office doors were open, -and the safe- door was ajar. All of the cash had gone. Mrs Bethune had some'of .the cash stolen in trust for others, and she is a heavy loser.
The indication's point to .two thieves operating, and at loast one of them lmd a thorough knowledge of the usuial procedure of the house and of the proprietress.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1932, Page 5
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194MONEY STOLEN Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1932, Page 5
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