CHARGE OF BURGLARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 329, 16 October 1908, Page 8

CHARGE OF BURGLARY.

"A REGULAR AMERICAN DODGE." (Bf TELEOBAI'H—I'ItESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, October 15. Further developments' have occurred in connection with the recent'arrests by Detectives Josk, Kennedy,'. and. Eado of two men on a number of charges of burglary in the Islington district; It is 'stated, that a few weeks ago a resident in tho neighbourhood of Christchurch paid a'holiday visit to Sydney and when ho came,-back found tliat nearly 'all tho furniture' in : his house had been removed, lock, stock, aiid'barrel. This modus operandi is described by the detectives as "a regular American .dodge', 1 ' and it is tho first timo a burglary of this i:aturo has occurred in the Canterbury district. I 1 is alleged that the men were on a recent night seen at Islington carrying a chest of drawers (from which the:drawers had been extracted) on a couple of ' poles , slung on straps attached to their shoulders; that as soon as they were observed they hurriedly decampod, leaving the empty chest of drawers on the roadside. It.is thought that most of the furniture has been burned, but a number of household effects, including curtains' were found in the house occupied ty ono of the men before mentioned, and as a sequel they will l have to answer to an extra charge of theft, in addition to those charges which havo already been' .preferred against them. ' .'i .