HOUSE RANSACKED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 57, 9 March 1931, Page 10

HOUSE RANSACKED.

DEVONPORT BURGLARY.

OCCUPANTS AT CHURCH,

ARTICLES VALUED AT £23 STOLEN.

Articles and jewellery worth £25 and about £7 in cash were stolen from the house of Mr. Alexander Watson, retired statiOnmaster, at 15, Kerr Street, Devonport, between 0.30 and 8.30 o'clock last evening, while the occupants were away at church.

[ When Mr. Watson went to church 'about 6.30 he left the house locked, but one window was open. The burglar worked methodically, for when Mr. Watson returned at 5.30 he found every room in the house had been ransacked. Cupboards and drawers had been turned out, clothes searched, and everything was left in heaps on the floors. The thief's swag must have been a bulky one. He stole 2.1 gramophone records and, among other articles, a silver jewel box, a gold chain, a valuable Maltese cross and a silver watch.

ONE TREE HILL THEFT

BOROUGH COUNCIL'S OFFICE

On going to the office of the One Tree Hill Borough Council, the town clerk, Mr. A. Leese, discovered that during the week-end a thief had ransacked the office.

After pasting a porous plaster on one of the windows of the office, in Manukau Road, the thief smashed the pane of glass with a stone. A hole large enough for the thief to 'insert his hand and release the catch from the inside was made. For all this trouble the thief secured 2/ in small change, a dishonoured cheque and a fountain pen.