BURGLARY IN GISBORNE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 44, 13 June 1914, Page 6

BURGLARY IN GISBORNE.

THIEVES IN A JEWELLER’SSHOP. [Per Pa ess Association.] Gisborne, June 13. A daring burglary was effected last night, the jeweller’s establishment of • Mr H. J. Grieve being broken into and the valuable jewellery in the window cleaned out. Mr Grieve estimates his loss at £2OOO. Entry was made by a back window, tfie iron bars being drawn together by a rope and the latch prized off. It had been Mr Grieve’s custom to leave the jewellery in the window at night, the whole establishment being brilliantly lit. The weak point, however, noted by the burglars was that a curtain screen immediately inside the window, hiding the jewellery from the street, enabled them to operate without being observed. The contents of the window were abstracted, and the cases left tidily on the floor. Nothing in the shop itself was touched, and a case of diamond rings, the most valuable in the whole shop, which stood oh a shelf in the window, was missed by the thieves. There are no clues so far. The crime is believed to have been committed between 10.30 p.m. and 3 a.m., the discovery being made by the proprietor of an adjoining bakery, who observed that the back window had been tampered with. Mr Grieve was uninsured against burglary.