BURGLARY AT HAMILTON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2901, 17 February 1891, Page 2

BURGLARY AT HAMILTON.

So.mctimk between eleven o'clock on J-'ri day night and Saturday morning the bar of the Waikato Hotel was burglariously entered and ths cash box containing about £14 in cheques, notes and silver taken. The thief, however, had the kindness to leave the cash box and tho cheques amounting to £."> odd on the front door, where they were found on Saturday morning by one' of the servants. The theft was done in a barefaced manner, the thief coining in by the back door and gaining entrance to the br.r through a small sliding window (which had by some; mischance not boon bolted that night), from the tap-room, and the drawer in which the cash box was kept was then wrenched open with a chisel Some gentlemen who wore in a back room heard a noise, as if something were being wrenched open, but thinking it was some one connected with the house in the bar they took no further notice of it. Mr La Quesne al.so, who retired to bed about eleveu, thought he heard the window between the bar and the tap-room onen, but as his son (Mr C. Le Quesne) who manages the hotel was not in when he went 'm bed and as it was his custom to take tho cash b ix from the bar every night he concluded that his son had gone into the b.ir to get the cash box and did not come down. Mr C. Le Quesne however did not return till about one o'clock, and as ho intended getting up early in the morning !ie did not trouble to go for the c-ish box in tho bar. The matter was put in the hands of the police at once and although active inquiries have been made no trace of the burglar has been discovered.