BREAKING AND ENTERING.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 16 February 1927, Page 8

BREAKING AND ENTERING.

<s> A LEVIN EPISODE. A determined effort was made some time on Monday night to enter the premises of Messrs W. M. Clark, Ltd., drapers, in Oxford Street, Levin, states the 11 Levin Chronicle” of yesterday. The burglars were evidently well acquainted with the locality, and came from the railway line through thoTbackf yard of Mr C. S. Keedwell ’s' pharmacy, and then climbing the’ fence, started in a methodical way to gain access to the drapery store. Breaking the top louvre in the window of a lavatory, the culprits prised-off' the inside framework, and removed the rest of the louvre window, one sheet at a time, intact. The lock on the door then proved an easy matter, as it only required unscrewing. The next ’door, however, proved a successful check to their nocturnal depredations, for it was not only locked, but also bolted top and bottom. A screwdriver was freely used in an endeavour to force the door open, but without avail. The work is civdently that of an amateur who has left behind a liberal number of finger prints on the glass; which is now in the .hands of the police.