JEWEL ROBBERY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1927, Page 4

JEWEL ROBBERY

STRONGROOM UNLOCKED

SENSATIONAL COUP

(By: Telegraph.—Press Association.)

DANNEVIRKE, 3rd February.

In the past Dannevirke has been remarkably free from anying in the nature of serious burglaries, but this record was broken on Wednesday night by a sensational coup at the premises of Stubbs and Millar, jewellers, whose shop is situated in the heart of the business area.

The shop is usually lighted all night, but between 10.30 p.m. and 12.30 the shop was visited and burgled. An entrance was gained through the front door being forced. The intruder then unlocked the strongroom and stole goods, mostly diamond rings, valued, after the proprietors had taken stock, at about £1000. When the nightwatchman passed at about 11 p.m., he noticed that the light usually burning over the safe was out. He tried the door and found it locked. On returning about an hour later he found the door unlocked. He informed the police, who made a search and found the safe open. There was no trace of the intruder, who apparently left the same way as he entered.

Whether the burglary was the work of the cracksmen who had been operating at the railway stations at Levin and 3?ahiatua is" a' matter for conjecture, but there are various circumstances connected with the affair which would tend to indicate that this, at least, is not one of their exploits, as the methods emplojred were quite different.