ROBBERY IN BALCLUTHA.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 60, 2 July 1908, Page 7

ROBBERY IN BALCLUTHA.

GOODS VALUED AT £lO STOLEN. Some time on Sunday evening or early on Monday morning, Messrs Clarke and Richardson's Hairdressing Saloon and Drapery Establishment in Clyde street, Balclutha, was burglarised. and about £lO worth, of goods taken, V.jji'ii \\i opened Die dooc of hi';-, .-..'top iu) .Uonday morning lit; was. iuirprtxod to find thai the e oris e;. o; i lu> glass p/ine it. v,i.s }. ro!<en ; .1 hoi-' iieiny juad.e !ar *t> to insert u man'.-; iiaud. 'Hie i t*y was on the iiiiiHe. ukU this hud. noea torn-i-i;o ■r. In ide all Wit.s Co;;i'.is.iii', ii,. :i" ij'C.-;, a :<'•)'• i u-;\. u>!)hC''o and eas'-s .wre :-caiior- . d ovit the iiour, ■ v.niie the sin, Iters, which usually l e against. the door, had been pushed over. Everything was in a disordered state, jual it was easily seen that burglars hud leen at work. The back door, leading from the yard into the saloon, bed been forced and the lock hurst off, lat a bar at the top prevented the bvrglars gaining entrance here, and so they must have turned their attention to the front. In looking over his stock, Mr Richardson saw that about £,lO worth of pipes, plug tobacco, fancy goods, and cigarettes was missing, while about five shilling's worth of coppers had been extracted from the till.

Constable Lopdell was at once informed of the mattfir, but we understand there is as yet no clue as to the person or persons who committed the theft, though a number of suspicious characters were luown to be in the town on that night. Constable Lopdell went past the lUilJing at about 11 o'clock on Sunday vvenmg, and heard no suspicious soonds, nor did he notice anything '\rong. The sound of the shutters falling over inside must have made a .»oud \oise, but none of the residents i'ving near at hand heard anything. Whil® going into the County Chambers at half-past seven ysterday morning, a man named Thomas Beadle noticed two new pipes on the windowsill of the Kiver Board Office, and gave them over to the Police later on. This shows that the burglars went along that way after coming out of the shop. Just where the glass was broken is a Vaudeville Company's poster, with! the words standing out clearly "Come once, come again. We learn that the two pipes which were found on the Eiver Board's window were previously picked up on the asphalt below that morning by a resident, who placed them on the sail.