AUDACIOUS THIEVES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2316, 16 August 1921, Page 2

AUDACIOUS THIEVES.

TRICKS WORKED ON SYDNEY

PEOPLE

Kulnev, Julv 19.

The head of a prosperous suburban family, one morning not long ago, received a letter. It contained four tickets to ti Sydney theatre, and a note —“Guess who sent these f” The family guessed hard, but when Lite nighkfor which the tickets were issued arrived, the identity of the giver had not been discovered. But it was decided, of course, to use the tickets. When, several hours later, the family returned from a delightful entertainment, they found that, in their absence, the house had been thoroughly ransacked. Clothing, silverware, linen, pictures everything negotiable—had vanished. And on the diningroom 1 tuble was a pleasant little note —“Guess who did this?”

A city man got married, and furnished with elaboration and taste, a charming little bungalow in a waterside suburb. The house remained locked up while the couple were away on honeymoon. One day a couple of vans stopped before the house, and three men began to load the furniture into the vans. No one interfered with them. That is a peculiarity of Sydney life —“stickybeak neighbours are not encouraged. When the couple came back home they found 90 per cent, of their new furniture missing, and it was never traced. A man who was once a successful auctioneer in Invercargill, and is now a resident, of Sydney, bought a cabinet, grama plume fqi- £4O the other day, put it in the back of his car, and left it there while he and his wife went into a big department store. When they came back the big talking machine, with various parcels, had vanished, and were never seen again.

Stories such as these appear in tho Sydney newspapers almost every day. The police have to some extent broken up the crime wave, but tho sneak thieves are always with un, and they seem to be developing greater ingenuity and audacity.