Intruder Invades Chinese Shop
TILL IN BACKYARD FOOTMARKS TO THE FENCE SOON after seven o’clock last evening Kwong Kee, a Chinese •fruiterer in the Parnell Road, almost opposite St. Stephen’s Avenue, found that the till was missing from his shop. Later he found it lying in the backyard, where apparently the intruder had been trying to open it and had been disturbed. There were footmarks over some loose soil from the yard to a fence leading into a side street. Mr. Kwong Kee explained to-day that he left nls stop at about seven o’clock last evening to go next door to make a purchase. A few minutes after he returned a woman customer canje into the shop for some fruit. When he went to get change for her he discovered that the till was missing. The shop is near where Mr. A. G. Durvin’s car was stolen from St. Stephen’s Avenue later in the evening. This morning Mr. Kwong Kee shook the till, Explaining that he could not get it open and that it contained about £2 12s 6d. He was not sure how much fruit had been stolen, but he is sure that if he had not returned the intruder would have got the till open and stolen the money.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 121, 12 August 1927, Page 9
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211Intruder Invades Chinese Shop Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 121, 12 August 1927, Page 9
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