BURGLARS AT WORK

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 145, 20 June 1924, Page 8

BURGLARS AT WORK

SUBSTANTIAL BOOTY SECURED

CITY PREMISES ENTERED.

Burglars ( have been active in many quarters of, the city and in: some cases the booty ' obtained .has been of sufficient value to make the visit a really profitable one for ..tlie intruders.

,As was briefly - mentioned- in- "The ■Post" yesterday,v the premises of*T! Sternberg, a second-hand dealer of Manners street, .were broken and entered :early yesterday morning,.and jewellery to the approximate value of £180 was stolen. The burglars evidently forced an entrance .through the xb'aek door, and decamped after filling an' attache case, of which they took .possession, with as many rings, ■vvatches,\bangles, etc.j as it.would liold. ... r - . ' .'■,'.-'■ - ';

j. On Monday evening the rooms of G. T. Nation, a men's outfitter, of 130, Featherston street, were ' burglarised, the marauders stealing ; overcoats, pairs of trousers, boots, and suiting material to the. value: of something like £150.- JEn-ti-ance was gained through smashing in one of the door panels and from the quantity of goods stolen it-would appear that a vehicle was used for the removal of the booty. . „ •

! The presence of these' unwelcome .visitors also" has been felt by : Harold Orsborn, the proprietor of a tobacconist's shop at 36, Lambton- quay, below the Cecil Hotel. The intruders, probably by forcing the: fanlight, gained admission, and removed £17 in money from the cash register,'which, it is understood, was not locked. ■'.-.•. ' • ■ . ' :

A juvenile who will appear before-the Court in due course is.expected to;throw some light upon several petty/thefts committed at the King's Theatre nnd also at the Willis street office of Mr. H. D. Bennett. Th« police have taken pSssession of a bunch of keys, "about eighty in number, and of many sizes and.shapes.