BURGLARIES AT GERALDINE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2607, 13 January 1894, Page 3

BURGLARIES AT GERALDINE.

Early on Thursday morning last someone made an eutrace through the sittiugroom window of Hood’s Geraldine Hotel, by springing the lock, and stole about £5 from th® till. The man who is suspected had been prowling about the town on Wednesday evening and Mr Hood ordered him away from his premises, saying that he would sooner have his room than his company. Mr Hood states that he had about £3O lying in his iron safe, the door of which happened, on Thursday morning, to be unlocked, so that the burglar might have had something worth taking if he had known this. The man after leaving the hotel appears to have contemplated further burglaries, for Miss Oarrig, dressmaker states that at about 4.16 o’clock on Thursday morning rhe heard the window blinds in a room at the back of her house being moved about, as though someone was getting through the window. She immediately went into the room and found a man in the act of climbing in. Miss o»”rig asked him what he wanted there, and told him to shut the window, and the man said “ What’s this, what’s this ? ” and walked away. The>indow had been pushed up and a small axe from the yard had been put under it as a support. Mias Carrig describes the man as young looking, rather tall, dressed in a brown coat, light grey trousers, and wideawake felt hat. On Wednesday night this individual took a fancy to a ring worn by a young man at the Crown Hotel. The young man let him handle the ring and has not seen it since. The police were not informed of the burglary till Thursday evening and meanwhile the stranger had. changed his abode. Constable Wi’loughby has since been making enquiries, but up till yesterday nothing had been heard or seen of the burglar.