ANOTHER DARING BURGLARY AT TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2635, 1 June 1889, Page 2

ANOTHER DARING BURGLARY AT TE AROHA.

* About five weeks ago the shop in the occupancy of Mr Albert Berger, watchmaker, &c., was forcibly entered on a Saturday night, when 15 watches and other articles, of the estimated value of about £70, were abstracted, the culprit and valuables being still undiscovered. We have yet another robbery of a similar character to add to our calendar of criii>o, which, by the way, during the last nine months, has greatly increased in Te Aroha. Following so close on the last watch robbery, and taking all the surroundings of the present, it is strongly suspected that both are the thefts ot the. same person or parsons, and that he or they are no strangers to the place. Anyhow, suspicion is now somewhat re moved from the erratic swagsinan who passed through Te Aroha at the time of Mr Berger's affair, and was searched afterwards at Hamilton. The following are the particulars of burglary No. 2 : —-Between Wednesday nif,ht and Thursday morning the premises of Mr C. K. Balke, stationer (who also has a stock of watches, jewellery, &c.), were entered by forcing open the front door, and two silver watches, three gold rings, a gold bracelet, and several other articles of value, amounting to between £25 and £30, were taken. On a small table under one of the windows in the back room was a white blotting pad, on which can be distinctly seen the nail marks in the boots of the depredator, but although the window was found lowered from the top, it would appear the entry and exit were made at the front door, which was found open when Mr Bailee's assistant came to business. Constable Wild was at onco communicated with, and from what I can learn caused immediate enquiry to be made both in the town and outside of it. The matter has created a painful sensation here, this being, since the safe robbery at the railway station, the third mysterious robbery in Te Aroha.