BURGLARY AT GERALDINE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2330, 15 March 1892, Page 2

BURGLARY AT GERALDINE.

Early on Sunday morning Constable Willoughby discovered that the window of Mr J. Mcllroy’s jeweller’s shop, Geraldine, was broken, and, suspecting something wrong, went for Mr Robson who manages Mr Mcllroy’s business at Geraldine. Mr Robson resides some distance from the shop, and when he was called, found, as near as he could estimate it, that £5 worth of jewellery was missing from a show case in the window. The goods taken comprise mostly gold brooches and earings. The window is covered with the scratchings of a diamond or some glass-cutting instrument, which shows that the burglar had made an attempt to cut the glass, .but finding it too thick had smashed it in with his elbow, or something heavy. No due has yet been discoved to show who the culprit can be, but the general opinion is that it must be some one who knows something about the place, and was aware that M r Robson did not sleep on the premises. A lad in the employ of Mr J. Riordan sleeps in a back room of the premises, but being too far away from the shop he was not disturbed. It was well that watcher, chains, and other valuables had beeii removed from the window by Mr Robson the night previous, otherwise the burglar would have made a “ nice haul,”