OTHER BURGLARIES.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9522, 15 September 1896, Page 3

OTHER BURGLARIES.

Between Saturday night and Sunday morning tho enterprising burglar tried his hand at Measn. Kinsey, Barns and Co.'s establishment, Hereford streot, and got very little for the labour expended. An entrance was effected from Cathedral square, by forcing tho bolt of the double doors. A cupboard was opened in one of the rooms; bub it contained nothing except papers, and an effort was made by chipping at the woodwork of tho lock to open Mr Kinsey'_ private draws.'. The thief desisted before proceeding far, perhaps from an instirictisro idea, that the contents—which happen to be geological specimens—could hot be easily converted into cash. The clerk's desk in the front office was opened in a similar way, .a penknife possibly being used to oliip the. wood awiiy from the locks. Tho only money missed from here was about,7d in coppers, while a number of stamps and a sixpence, the solitary piece of silver in the desk, were untouched. Disappointed as the visitor or visitors were over this result, they were probably more so when, after no small amount of labour, they chipped open th© comer of a tempting-looking wooden package and discovered th.ey had only struolc a lino of condensed-milk.

On Wednesday night last the premises of Messrs Skelton, Frostick and Co., boot manufacturers, wero entered from a front window in Hereford Btreet, and from the private office of the firm about £2 in cash was taken. The safe was not interfered with.

On Sunday Mrs Jewiss left her house in Sumner and went by tram to Christchurch, where she stayed all night, and on returning on Monday morning she found that the house had been entered and a number of blankets and other articles stolen, f As the furniture was all packed up preparatory to -/Irs Jewiss vacating the house it is not yet known what amount of property has been stolen. On Sunday evening a neighbour saw a woman on the verandah of Mra Jewiss's house, but did not take particular notice of her as he concluded it was the occupant.