CLEAN SWEEP
MADE BY BURGLARS AT HASTINGS PAINSTAKING ROBBERY. (Per Press Association! Napier. March o Almost the entire stock on the premises of Frank Whisker (hairdresser and tobacconist) in Hastings was stolen 'by burglars some time during the week-end. Whisker left the shop locked and barred on Saturday night. On returning lie found that a drawer had been opened and tobacco cigarettes, pipes, toilet articles and in short almost everything movable gone. Onlv a small box of articles, which the thieves themselves had packed, was left. Even scissors and razors I had been stolen, and yesterday morning Whisker had only two of three I razors which he had at home, as 1 his stock in trade with which to begin business. The burglars apparently attempted to force the door with a crowbar and chisel, but on failing smashed the panel and undid tho lock. Besides making an obvious unhurried and painstaking clean sweep of the stock the intruders left a note in the tin, which after informing ‘‘Dear Sir.” that they were strangers to the town asked him not to inform the police too soon of tho crime.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10017, 5 March 1929, Page 3
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188CLEAN SWEEP Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10017, 5 March 1929, Page 3
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