Ransacked Office Yields No Plunder

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 194, 5 November 1927, Page 1

Ransacked Office Yields No Plunder

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STREET R>JML\RY

a acRY was attempted in T?° u daylight at the P re ' of the Australasian Waste- «'•** an d Bottle Company, prodU . C nor Lane, off Hobson Street, gEn 5 P-"- and 6 P ’ m - yeStßr ‘

dayfortunately the cash on the prea substantial sum, was in the 9i3C which the intruders were unable "‘V„ before they were disturbed, to 05®“ nd cash boxes were quite ®pty save for cheques, which were p Houlahan, the principal of .'hiishment, closed the high IK e t tS e 9 which completely shut off of’ the lane, at five o’clock, the office, which is in a corner he yard, He then went away t( X n he returned at b p.m. he ens the office building by a baekt6f,.nre through the garage in which his car. In his own office M ‘.L. W as open, and various small •JX were scattered on the desk, s to the outer office the window was •Jittered, the patent till was a wreck, hj cash boxes lay open. PILLAGE INTERRUPTED There was the evidence of a hasty and It is suspected that the were still busy in Mr. Hoular ®room, where there were quanrities of cigarettes and cigars which •hej would have found acceptable, then they heard the proprietor enter ile garage. They then made a hasty Lit through the outer office, flinging tjTmain gates open wide as they kited. Tie gates had been locked from the huide, and it is believed that one of the intruders must have concealed himself in the yard when they were own during the afternoon. After sort closed he must have let in others, and they smashed the office -cdow, after which they were able (open the door. A small iron crowbar used for openly packing cases fell nicely to their hands as a jemmy, and with it they priaed open the till, which was empty, lone of the cash boxes yielded them jav loot, but in the safe was a large min which they were unable to reach.

SUSPECTED TRIO A trio of suspicious-looking charactm had been seen round the yard in |h« afternoon, and one of them had intered the office to ask the rather ohrioos question: “Does this concern bU bottles?” As the questioner had no bottles to sell it is thought that he may have been there for the purpose of casting a discerning eye round the premises.