Thief sneaks in
“If you go out to dig your garden, you should lock your house,” a Christchurch policeman said yesterday. He was commenting on the theft of a handbag containing $146 in notes from an elderly woman’s house in Dallington. The handbag was taken from a chair in the diningroom of her Locksley Avenue home yesterday while she worked nearby
in her front garden. “I heard a shuffling noise, and thought no morf about it; when I went inside about an hour later the purse was gone,” she said. Senior Sergeant J. Goodber, who gave the advice about locking houses, said this type of daylight theft was becoming more common in Christchurch. “We get several reported each week,” he said.
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Press, 27 May 1978, Page 6
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