SHOTS FIRED

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 309, 26 June 1912, Page 7

SHOTS FIRED

f ENCOUNTER WITH A BURGLAR. I By Telegraph—Press Associatio*. Auckland, Monday. Burglars and rumours of burglars continue to agitate the civil and official minds of Auckland. This morning the discovery was made that some time after Saturday evening the back door of Mr. Brooks' butcher's shop, on the Auckland road at Onehunga, had been burst open. Entrance having thus been obtain e.d, the intruder proceeded to the shop till and forced that open. The effect, however, was only to reveal the emptiness of the till, from which all the cash had been removed on Saturday night by the owner. Yesterday evening Mr. F. S. Morton, of Onehunga, came into actual confli< t with a burglar. He sleeps upstairs on the premises, and was awakened shortly) after 11 o'clock on Sunday night by what he took to be the sound of falling glass. He possessed himself of a revolver, and crept stealthily to the head of the stairs, from which position he observed a man with a lighted match in his hand, crouched, and moving behind the counter. Mr. Morton loosed off with the revolver, and fired four shots, ail the same time calling for help. Constable Smith, who was on night duty, was attracted to the place, and came to hand very soon, but by then the burglar j had vanished.