BURGLARS AT WORK

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 4 May 1923, Page 7

BURGLARS AT WORK

HUGH WRIGHT'S AGAIN ROBBED. GOODS VALUED AT £200. The premises of Hugh Wright, Ltd, situated at the corner of Karangahape Koad and Belgium Street, were burglariously entered last night. The burglary was a particularly audacious one, and was the second occasion within the last four months that the same building had been visited by an uninvited nocturnal visitor. The last time the burglar effected his entrance by -way of a window at the rc.ir of the building. This morning the manager was astonished to find that the hack door had been bored through, and that about £200 worth of stock had entirely disappeared, while coat-hangers and all sorts of ladies and men's apparel wore strewn over the floor in the rear of the building. Apparently the burglar had entered the joinery shop of Mr. Healings, Belgium Street, where he obtained a large brace and hit. With the aid of this tool he bored about twenty holes in Hugh Wright's door, and then forced it open. His choice of articles was a large one, for ho stripped 82 coat hangers. He evidently also had good taste, for he selected dozens of new English and Parisian model frocks, and left articles of lesser value. A room fronting Belgium Street was packed with £500 worth of goods, all bundle,! up ready to be put out through the window, the fastenings of which were wrenched oil. But the thief apparently was disturbed, for he made his exit without these goods. The theft of such goods is vastly different from :l jewellery theft, or cash from a house, and the police should have a better chance of tracing the stolen property, for there must be some purchaser for such lines as fur coats, frocks, coats, and hosiery, if the thief is to get any return for the risk taken. So far as can be at present ascertained by the firm, goods to the value of £200 were removed last ni"ht. *