BURGLAR AT WORK.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 226, 1 September 1914, Page 2

BURGLAR AT WORK.

Operations in Pukokohe.

A Shop Brokon Into.

On Friday evening a burglary was perpetrated In I'ukckohe, ths premises of Messrs W. (». Shotboll and Co. being broken int >.

Th: theft was not vnv extensive and it. appeared to bear a resemblance to other crim s cf (he kind which have occurred in thi 1 district during the past year, when the premises of Messrs Willis Hros., of Papakura, anJ Mr A. 11. Tapper, nf Tuakau, were visited An attempt at entrancs was made at the front dcor, where a hole harl begun to bo bored with a view to drilling out th? lock. This effort was abandoned, possibly because the thief or thieves were disturbed.

The next tmvj was to try the olli:e winthw at the side (next TownsonV.) A pane of glass w "b broken, the catch undone, and entrance was th;n unimpeded. So far or can ha definitely ascertained (he sum (if 7s fid in silver was taken, half-a-dozjn rolled gold watches, an overcoat and a negligee shirt. In fu li ait establishment it is, nf course, impossible to rcmemb?r every article, so tha'. other things may have he n n taken. As Friday is the "lite night" in I'ukckohe, and tho police are patrolling until after II o'clock, the burglary apparently took place either (|iiite laat night or in the early hours of the miming. Two very pronounced hand-mat ks were left behind as evidence, and the brace-and-bit, with which the attempted boring nf the l'ront door hud been made, was found hanging on the fencp.

So far it appears that there is no clue as to the identity of the burglar, who is possibly a more or less harmless sort of amateur.