DAMAGING SHOW WINDOWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2597, 20 October 1915, Page 4

DAMAGING SHOW WINDOWS

A DIAMOND-CUTTER AT WORK. During Monday many tradesmen id the city with plateglass show-windows discovered to their - dismay that their windows had heen, in most cases, badly marked, either by a diamond or a »lass-cutter. This form of criminal idiocy was practised in Wellington somo fivo years ago, and there was a recrudescenco of it during the strike hero two years ago. But the extent of the damage done by the guilty parties on those occasions was restricted to a few isolated shop-fronts in different .parts of the city, and, comparatively, was of small moment. On this occasion, however, the perpetrator lias evidently set out with the intention of doing as much damage as possible, and few places along Lambton Quay and in. Willis Street have been spared a visit between closing time on Saturday and S o'clock on Monday morning. Tho marks made by the cutter vary in character. Some arc the line, thin marks of a diamond point', whilst others appear to have boon deeply gashed by a blunt glass-cutter. Nearly all tho marks are about the level of a man's (or woman's) hand, which strengthens the belief that the damage may have been done with a diamond set in a ring. Thf matter is being investigated by tho police. ■ Those people and companies whose windows have suffered are Messrs. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Georgo and Kersley, HOI Bros., Wissrfns, Gamble's,/ Norton's. Mrs. Mathewson's, Whitcombe'S, Fletcher's, Lankshear's, H. \X. Lloyd's, Hallecstcin Bros., Burman's, H. Soaton's, M'Lean and Archibald's, the Direct Emporium, F. Cohen's, Morris's Direct .Supply Com' pany, and Eaton's.