THEFT OF JEWELLERY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1938, Page 4

THEFT OF JEWELLERY

OVER £3OO WORTH STOLEN IN CHRISTCHURCH. FORMIDABLE OBSTACLES OVERCOME. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, October 4. Over £3OO worth of jewellery was stolen from the shop of Francis Curtis. Cashel Street, when a very thorough job of breaking into the shop was made from the back. A reinforced steel door embedded in concrete and brick did not stand in the wav for long. To gain an entrance the burglar began working from Lichfield Street. He entered the block of buildings at approximately the rear of the jewellery shop and made his way over the roof tops and corrugated iron to a skylight above the rear of the shop. The skylight was smashed and the cat burglar then found himself in the back of the shop but cut off from his booty by two doors. The first had glass panels. One of these was shattered and the bolt withdrawn. Then the thief set about removing his biggest obstancle. Using a jemmy with apparently professional skill he prised the wood architrave from its concrete setting. All the stolen articles were scooped up from the shop window and apparently taken away in a table centre, which is now missing. The loss of stolen goods is fully covered by insurance.