BURGLARIES AT MASTERTON.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2131, 24 April 1914, Page 6

BURGLARIES AT MASTERTON.

— —, — %— „_—- UNUSUAL METHODS. {From Gut Spfceial Gorros.pondcßU' Mastortortj April 23. '■ During t'lw last eonpje el ! days a series of itopmicttt burglaries has occur** ■ctl to Wus twn : , but., so la.r, the patiee liavo not MHi.de an arrest, On Tuesday Might the hens* *>£ Mr. Allen., grocer, was entered,, Uvo keys of his shop taken from bis pocket, ami his business premises favivded, A sum of 2s< M. was removed frorti the tills but otherwise nothing W missed. M.r, Alien has fortunately been the habit of keeping bis cash takings in ■« safe at his .resilience. tast flight t'h<? ■rCSijlc:n.eo_of Mr. .A. T Spain, manager of the .New Zealand Lean unci Sicreantvlo .Agency 'Company, nt iiaiisdow'irc,. was visited. A mmi of ■£l 9s. was taken faom Mr, Spain's pockets., togothin' with his tifhee keys. Tim office door was diseoverod optn .this inovinugj and. an tuvestigaliW' showed that the safe had been openrf, the cash bos smashed, and a sum of £7 or £8, besides certain papers, abstracted. Ctoe. or two miiio.r thefts have been reported, and if is suspected that the. burglar is a recent, arrival in tito town.