DAYLIGHT THEFT

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

DAYLIGHT THEFT

BREAK AT PONSONBY LITTLE BOY SEES INTRUDER MONEY AND WATCH TAKEN An audacious daylight theft is reported from Ponsonby where, it is stated, a man entered the house of Mrs. Clark, 24 Seymour Street, and stole cash amounting to £2O/0/6 a child’s money boz and a gold watch valued at £lO. The theft took place yesterday afternoon at about 1.30 o’clock, Mrs. Clark was working in her flower garden and her son was making a toy boat in the bathroom. The child ran out to his mother and stated that there was a strange man in the ht/use. Mrs. Clark states that she went round to the front of the house, and that the intruder jumped over a fence into the next door garden. A few minutes later, when the nextdoor garden was searched, the child’s money box was found, where it had evidently been dropped by the burglar. The house next door had not been occupied for some time, and the intruder probably knew this. When Mrs. Clark went indoors she found that her money was missing. The money was in a bag in her room. Mrs. Clark had just cashed a cheque and intended banking the money, which was made up of three £5 notes, a 10s note, four sovereigns and a halfsovereign and 7s 6d in silver. The thief did not stay to take several of Mrs. Clark’s rings which were in the same room.