BURGLARS HAVE A PART.
THEN! DECAMP WITH BOOTYfc
MERCERS' SHOP! !Q_S!3nj_B_%M
When the assistants of HngK IWrighi and Co., tailors and mercers, Queeff Street, np this morning, they found the whole place in a, state of chaos! Drawers had been opened and hatsj" shirts, suits, ties, collars and cocks weref strewn about the show. Wax matches; cigarette butts, the top of a heer bottle! and half a packet of chewing gmni ehowed that the perpetrators had had something of party on the premise. They decamped with an assortment p| men's goods valued at about £20. It i_j thought that the burglaij _) Gie» work of "amateurs/* who gained entrance.by smashing Q, Skylight, SFhen, x by smashing a heavy glass dooft f__ej] were able to run riot in tho main shop* This they did. "They feyldentljfl satisfied with the 'sport* provided by tJaj main shop, for the basemeni and __t_g. room were in no way Interfered With,*? said the manager. H Jitickily W8 fes!j!p W money in the §hop, jpr doubtle|__'ihjijif would have gofi 4ha,y* ;
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 9, 12 January 1926, Page 6
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173BURGLARS HAVE A PART. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 9, 12 January 1926, Page 6
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