ALLEGED HOUSEBREAKER.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1919, Page 6

ALLEGED HOUSEBREAKER.

BURGLARIES ON A LARGE SCALE. Auckland, August 1. The arrest of a resident in the suburban district on a charge of being concerned in the burglary at Thode Bros.' store at Avondale during the week-end was made yesterday. The discovery at some of the stolen goods on Tuesday led detectives to visit a marken garden ill the suburbs, and it is alleged that 'the remainder of the missing articles, and also some which had been stolen from the store on the occasion of a previous burglary just before Christmas of last year, were found there. The stock stolen from the store on the two occasions was valued at about £l5O, and comprised cases of tinned fruit, tins of condensed milk, baking powder, and general groceries. Some of the booty had been buried in a field and the ground neatly replanted with potatoes, while other articles were concealed in a large water tank.

The police allege that the method followed by the thief was to force the door of the store and to take goods away in a cart. It is stated that evidence was found which points to the belief that operatiffiis were being carried out on a •large scale. Two gigs, a motor engine from a launch, and a quantity of sails and yachting gear, a plough, a scarifier, and a harrow, and three cases of valuable Indian eurios and shells were appropriated by the police on tho ground that they are stolen property. The police also found a number of burglar's instruments, including skeleton keys, dynamite, detonators, aiid fuses. ' Accused appeared in court to-day, and was remanded.