ROOMS ENTERED

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1932, Page 3

ROOMS ENTERED

SLEEPERS’ CLOTHES ' SEARCHED (Per Press Association ■— Copyright.) : 1/0,) WELLINGTON, August 3. Cool robberies were carried out in two boardinghouses in Wellington on Saturday niofliing. The thief, who was seen at both places, escaped, and •has not Been captured. .... He entered.,No. 18a .MacdonaJd /Jryscent apparently by the front door went to the roong of an .yjfierly from whose trousers’ lie abstracted .18s. He then entered anotliep, ,arid.j the slqeper, who heard him milter something, stiried'/ and seeing . o ihe, glriaip, of a small! .jelectric i. torch,;, inquired, “Who’s, there?” The intruder,! immlediately vanished™ It, : was then 5.45 a.m, } apd; the .uwelcome visitor apparently tliofight trie* night., too young tq., r cease!jjhis .joperations. He .went a«.fe>»' doers ‘along, the street to No. ,36, another: jbQordinghouse, entered by the back;>,door,-: and then went through the house, searching for loot in trousers poelqets. He also emptied the handbag of; the, housekeeper, ... adro nji,j

When he was going ?(through the pockets of a suit hanging-,obehind the doofi of a room on the’ fin,t floor, “its owner woke, and seeing the-)figure of. a man at his himself out of bed, but the” •intruder r- was quicker. A : small' man; 7 hfi : - dashed around the'dctor, arid taking a flying leap doiWtHe'-' -staircase, sped away.- From thhS bourie lie secured. £6 10s.

It was 6.30 ’a.ril. when' he made hisescape, arid although an alarm dock, had sounded five lriinuties . earlier 'lVtej continued hii -1 pilfering iiripertuifeSl' j .. ~( i r . .- 5 t.qinuiire