ROBBING THE TILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 264, 17 March 1911, Page 5

ROBBING THE TILL.

AN AUCKLAND GANG'S SIMPLE METHODS. By Telegrapk.—Presi Association. Auckland, March 15. Some of the smart gentry in Auckland have devised a new method of raising money without working for it, and so far they have been successful—but just successful in keeping out of the hands of the law. Two of these smart citizens have been operating for some time. Their practice is to pick out a store where only one person is employed. One man goes in and asks to be supplied with a box and offers to accompany the shopman to the back of his premises to pick out a suitable one. Once there he engages the shopman in conversation, leaving his accomplice free to abstract as much as possible from the till in the shop. Yesterday a \man walked into the shop of Mr. E. Varley, tea merchant, Newmarket, and asked for a box. Mr. Varley's suspicions were aroused, and taking the man to the back of his premises lie left him to select a box and then hurried off to telephone for the police. The man became suspicious, and when Mr. Varley appealed to a bystander to help him to detain the man, the suspected one started running. Others joined in the chase, assisted by a constable, but the man got clear.