BURGLARY IN DANNEVIRKE.

Wairarapa Age, 4 February 1927, Page 5

BURGLARY IN DANNEVIRKE.

JEWELLER’S SHOP LOOTED.

GOODS WORTH £lOOO MISSING. DANNEVIRKE, February 3. In the past, Dannevirke has been remarkably free from anything* in the nature of serious burglaries, but this record was broken on Wednesday night by a sensational coup at the premises o»’ Stubbs and Millar, jewellers, whose shop is situated in the heart of the business area, which is usually lighted all night. Between 10.30 p.m. and 12.30, thd shop was visited and burgled. An entrance was effected through the front door which was forced. The intruder then by some means unlocked the strong-room and abstracted goods, mostly diamond rings, valued, after the proprietors had taken stock, at about £lOOO. When the nightwatchman passed about 11 p.m., he noticed that the light usually burning over the safe Was out. He tried the door and found it locked. When he returned about an hour later, the door was unlocked. He informed the police, who made a search and found the safe open. There was no trace of the intruder, who apparently left by the same, way as he entered. Whether the coup was the work of the cracksmen who have been ope rating at the railway stations at Levin and Pahiatua is not known, but there are various circumstances connected with the affair which would tend to indicate that this at least is not one of their exploits, as the methods employed were quite different The police have the matter in hand.— (P.A.).