BURGLARS OBSERVED.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 45, 22 February 1929, Page 5

BURGLARS OBSERVED.

THREE MEN WITH BICYCLES.

STOLEN" (JOODS IN SACK. (Bv Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.! CHRISTCHURCH. this day. A fruiterer ami tobacconist's shop, owned l;v Mr. (J. Weavers, at the corner of (oor-e Street and Sea\iew Hoad. New Brijfhton. was l.roken into earlv vestei •lay mommy, and ? oo<ls to the* value of about £2-1 were stolen. The o]«erations of th e l.ur-lars were «d,server! by Mrs. MeKell/.ie. who live--11l a shop opposite, her attention beii,attracted by hearinjj a era-h of "las-". She looked out of the window and"-aw a man crawlinp through the d<«.r wi.e.,. the glass had been broken, and ihete were tw 0 other men stan.lin- nearly. The fir-t. man gained entrance and a.i ni it ted the others.

Mrs. McKenzie called her father. Mi (lark, and he went down-tnii* called out to the men. and a-ked th-i , What they vcre doin«. The th:ce m 11 then da-lied out of the -hop uii), n f„ ; »a<-k. They went to the ..•.t.i —it, i-mii.-r. where their bicycle- v < ,lea nins a-j.-in-" tlie fence and made otr .lown 4 Street. ( onstab'e Hc.i.ler-on foimd two wof J.'oods on the (loor. To da\. a boy who was g<iiny to tlie bea>-h at tl, end of Mood Street found several pi-keti of ' metle- -1-alTrred about the -and-, and ~u further scan h the -io|, n -aej,. full of pipes. rettc-. etc.. vv.i- f.,,, „ J on a ncarbv sandhill.