THIEVES RESPECT FOR NEATNESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 152, 17 September 1927, Page 9

THIEVES RESPECT FOR NEATNESS

HOLE CUT IN WINDOW DOOR AND TILL UNSCREWED (Special to THE SUN.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Though a nocturnal visit to the shop of F. Sincock, a pastrycook, of 339 Stanmore Road, was not generously rewarded, thieves showed remarkable consideration for the orderly arrangement of the shop. In the early hours of yesterday morning, the thieves scaled the fence from a section next door to the lock-up shop, and set to work with a diamond cutter on the bungalow window at the back. A neat hole made it easy to unclasp the catch and gain an enti .nee. The kitchen dc-or, leading from the compartment to the shop, was locked, and the thieves carefully extracted the screws from the lock and opened the door. No attempt was made to prise open Lhe till under the counter. The visitors got to work with a screw-driver again and neatly unscrewed the till from its fastenings. All they secured was 5s 3d in coppers, a shilling’s worth of halfpennies being overlooked. After looking in an empty tin which they left out of position, the thieves left by the front door. No trace could be found of the glass cut from the window, the visitors evidently realising the value of fingerprint evidence. Usually on Wednesday evening there is about £7 or £ 8 left in the shop, but by a lucky chance the takings were removed tc safer keeping on this occasion. The same shop was broken into previously.