BURGLARS RAID PAWNBROKERS
Daring Entry Through Roof
JEWELLERY VALUED AT £2OO STOLEN
BY prising iron from the roof and wriggling through a manhole thieves made a raid on the premises of Meltzer Brothers, pawnbrokers and jewellers, 65 and 67 Victoria Street, last night.
This was the third attempt on the shop within three months. TIH thieves, who must have been working on the roof, in full view of the street, ransacked the shop windows, and took away a collection of rings, watches and binoculars in stolen suitcases. The value of the haul may be about £2OO The safe, in which the most valuable articles were kept, was not touched. Last week thieves tried to get into the shop, but the iron grids below the fan
lights stopped them. Last night an attempt was made to cut the grids with clippers, but the work evidently proved too strenuous, and the burglars adopted the more easy method of tearing off a sheft of roofing iron and opening up a nailed-down man-hole. About four years ago Meltzer Brothers lost about £ 500 worth of jewellerv through a burglary, but smart work by the police recovered a good deal of it from Sydney.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 390, 26 June 1928, Page 1
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