BURGLARY AT LINWOOD.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 132, 10 July 1914, Page 10

BURGLARY AT LINWOOD.

YOUNG MAN ARRESTED. , Late on Tuesday night or early on Wednesday • morning, the shop of Mr Charles Childs, a tobacconist at the corner of Worcester and Solleston Linwood. was broken into.

Apparently the intruder opened- the front, .doorwith a skeleton key, for ,he " did not seem to have mueli difficulty iu I getting in. He collected a quantity of cigars, cigarettes, and tinned tobacco, to the value of several . pounds. Cigarettes formed the bulk of the haul. There •was- some; small, changein the till, but ■ the till; was not opened.- Mr Childs had

intended to have an additional lock put on the front door, and now he has had that done in a hurry. This, morning- Detective Gibson arrested a young man named Clarence Pentecost and charged him with having burgled Mr Childs's shop. It is understood that some of the missing masculine comforts haw been recovered.