MORE BURGLARS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 35, 4 May 1927, Page 9

MORE BURGLARS

REMUERA “JOB” CIGARETTES WORTH £6O ONE PACKET LEFT Thieves who visited a shop at S 9 Green Lane Road, Remuera, last night, decamped with £6O worth of tobacco and cigarettes. When the wife of the proprietor arrived at the shop this morning all that •he found in the way of tobacco was a jacket of ten cigarettes. Though there were foods of all kinds in the shop the thief or thieves had passed them »ver. A tin containing £5 worth of toppers which stood on a shelf above the tobacco had been missed by the intruders when they searched the •hop, in another room a purse containing 25s had also been overlooked. The shop is owned by Mr. A. H. Curniek, who carries on the business of a general dealer. He is agent for THE SUN in that district. When Mrs. Curniek went into the ihop this morning she found the front door was open, she went back to her husband, and told him that he did not securely lock the front door the night previous. Mr. Curniek told his wife that ae was quite sure that he had locked the door. Mrs. Curniek then went back into the shop and did not think any more of the occurrence until she went behind the counter for something, when she happened to look tip at the tobacco fixtures, and they were empty. Then it dawned on her that the place had been robbed. She then made a thorough inspection of the shop and found that practically nothing had been touched, barring the cigarettes and tobacco. Out of £6O worth that comprised the stock the intruders had only left one packet of ten cigarettes. On the previous day Mr. Curniek had placed £5 worth of coppers in an empty tin and put them on a shelf on top of the tobacco fixtures; but these were not taken as the burglars did not trouble about going through empty tins. They also searched the back room, but found nothing, although Mrs. Curnick’s purse was there, containing 25s in silver. They ramsacked the till but got nothing, as Mr. Curniek is in the habit of taking the day’s takings into the house with him. On examining the front door it was discovered that the yale lock had been forced with a Jemmy. Mr. Curniek did not have an insurance policy covering burglary.