DRAPERY RANSACKED

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1927, Page 8

DRAPERY RANSACKED

GOODS STOLEN BY BUKGLASS

(By Telegraph.)

(Specif to "The Evening Port.")

CHRISTCHTJRCH, This Day. Goods to the value of £70 wer« stolen from the shop of Mr. A. Thomas, a draper, of 296, Lincoln road, on Thursday evening. The burglars bored through the back door of an adjoining shop till a whole board was cut away. They then smashed a hole through the plaster board partition of Mr. Thomas's shop and systematically went through his stock, selecting men's apparel to the value stated and making' off with it. What the thieves Lad not wanted was scattered all over the place. In -.-the-: room at the back there -was a ln-rg«-pile of material for filling mattresset. There had been four sacks of this ma-; terial in the room, and the marauders; had evidently emptied one of them andused it to take away the booty. Owing to the way in which: th» burglary was carried out it is thought"; I that there was more than one burglar,: and that they used a motor-car. The: sack was found at the end of the building in the morning. Mr. Thomas's shop is one of the two or three comprising; the iirst iloor frontage of Dudney's buildings. The thieves had entered from the back and had first gone to work on the wrong door, which lead* to no shop. This door had eighteen. | iuchc3 of two panels taken out. They I got away through ths front door of the shop into which they first broke (an empty one). This door was found open in the morning. The scene this morning was one of confusion. All parts of the shop had been ransacked, and the haul included socks by the dozen, fifteen or sixteen, pairs of trousers, dozens of shirts, neckwear, and underclothing, and men's apparel of all sorts and sizes.