TAILORS ROBBED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 238, 8 October 1930, Page 7

TAILORS ROBBED.

BOLT OF SERGE STOLEN. SUSPECT ARRESTED. SHIP'S FIREMAN" CHARGES. MAGISTRATE REFUSES BAIL. Arrested yesterday afttfrnoon bi-Detective-Sergeant McHugli on. a charge of breaking and entering the shop of Preston and Son, tailors, His Majesty's Arcade, on September 14, and stealing 30 yards of serge, valued at £25, Thomas Morgan (30), ship's fireman, appeared at the Police Court this morning. 011 the application of Detective Sergeant T. Kelly, accused was remanded for one week. Mr. J. J. Sullivan, who represented Morgan, applied for bail. - This application was opposed by Mr. Kellv, who said Morgan was a fireman on the s.s. Karepo. While the vessel was in Auckland on her last trip Preston and Son's premises were broken into and the serge taken. Yesterday Detec-tive-Sergeant McHugli searched, the fo'c's'le and found some of the serge'in Morgan's locker. Mr. F.- K. Hunt, S.M., thereupon refused to allow hail. Preston and Son's shop was broke'A into about one o'clock on Monday morning, September .14. With an apparently utter disregard for the noise made, the thief or thieves smashed a thick plate glass window in the door. A'ga'ng of men were working on'the tramway lines in Queen Street, near the Arcade, all night long, and it is surmised that the intruders took adva'ntage of the noise made by the hydraulic drills. At one a.m. a barman employed at the Metropolitan Hotel heard a crashing of glass in the Arcade, and immediately informed the police. Coloured suitings were disregarded'by the thieves, who decamped with a bulky bolt of blue serge. There were no lights showing in the arcade at the time, but since tlje burglary tlie whole line of shops has been brightly illuminated by a powerful lamp in the middle of tht> arcade.