"BURGLARY BY CONSENT"

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 72, 21 September 1912, Page 10

"BURGLARY BY CONSENT"

A PLOTTER'S REWARD. A remarkable story was told at Birmingham Police Court on Bth August during the investigation of a shopbreaking charge preferred against Alfred Chandler. Solomon Lorie, manager of a jeweller and pawnbroker's shop in Colmore-row, Birmingham, carried on by Mrs. Hen- ; fietta Aaron— where prisoner was arrested while attempting to break into the strong room— told how prisoner, whom he knew as a 'customer at the shop, approached him, Baying, "If I ooufd get j an impression of the keyß of your strong room I could easily arrange to get a decent few thousands each. The only ones to suffer would be the insurance people.'* Witness communicated with the police, and on their advice he arranged an interview, at which prisoner took wax impressions of the keys of the shop. It was arranged that the burglary should take place when the Bhop was closed for the half-day holiday. The police surrounded the premises and arrested the prisoner, who fought fiercely and injured one of the detectives. He had electrio torches and duplicate keys in his possession, but had not succeeded in opening the strong room door. Prisoner was committed for trial,