WHILE BURGLING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 317, 7 January 1909, Page 4

WHILE BURGLING

SWIFT JUDGMENT FOR HIM. GRUESOAIE DISCOVERY IN A WAREHOUSE. Glasgow, November 8. While going his rounds in Argyle street, Glasgow, yesterday morning a constable funnel the. back door of premises leading to a licensed grocer's warehouse open. l)u entering lie saw that a burglary had been attempted, a cash-desk having been tampered with and a number of boxes containing whisky forced open. The constable summoned a neighbor, and they discovered in the course of their searcli the body of a man lying at the foot of a lift.

An empty sack had been placed under his head to act as a pillow, and the ■body was covered with a waterproof. The police suspect that two or more. I men, including the dead man, had attempted' to commit a robbery, and that the dead man had fallen down the well of a lift and fractured his skull. His comrades then, it is supposed, left him, after covering up his body. The polite are searching the city for the companions of the dead man, who was in the course of the day identified as Andrew Buchanan, a laborer who lived in Stirling-street, one of the lowest quarters of the city. Entrance to the warehouse was gained by scaling a gate twenty feet high and smashing n window.