BURGLARY IN WILLISSTREET.

Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 55, 6 March 1891, Page 2

BURGLARY IN WILLISSTREET.

• The business premises of Messrs Higgin> bottom and Co., cuttlers, &c, Willis-street, were burglariously entered last night. When the employes appeared thia morning, they found that th 9 lower pane of the back window had been broken by means of a stone, the hasp turned back, and the upper sash lowered. There is a row of horizontal bars aoross the window, with sufficient space above the topmost one to admit of the passage cf a body. It is evident thit the burglar climbed over this bar, and co got into the shop, afterwards letting himself out by the back door. The till was ransacked, but it contained only a couple of shillings' wo'th of ooppera, Mr. Higginbottom being in the habit of taking the bulk of hia cosh home. The show-cases of sooda were also overhauled, but so far as could be ascertained np to this afternoon, the oaly articles missing are a razor, taken from a gentleman's dressing case (the c&se itself being left on the counter), and about half a dozen of the beat Sheffield knives, worth aam 335. To get aooeaa to tho back premises, the thief must have either scrambled down the cliff behind the i Oriental Hotel, or climbed over ths spiked gate in the passage which separates Mr. Higginbottom's premises from those of Messrs. Townsend and Paul,