AUDACIOUS BURGLARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 11

AUDACIOUS BURGLARY

IN TARANAKI STREET

TAILOR'S PREMISES ENTERED

A particularly audacious burglary occurred in lower Taranaki Street on Saturday evening, when premises occupied by a tailor and situated almost next door to the Taranaki Street Police Station were broken into, and a dinner jacket removed from the front of the window.

Mr. Coleman Hyman, the proprietor of the business, left the shop, which is situated at 37 Taranaki Street, at about 12.30 p.m. on Saturday. The police rang him and informed him of the burglary at 11.30 that night.

| Entry was gained by smashing the right-hand glass panel of the double doors opening into Taranaki Street. When this was done, the burglar would open the door by putting his arm through the broken pane and releasing the Yale-type lock from the inside. He apparently made his way into the right-hand front window, carefully moved things out of the way to avoid knocking them over, and removed a dinner jacket from a dummy right in front of the window.

From the back of the shop he took the trousers belonging to the jacket, and made a parcel of the jacket and trousers, several overcoats from stands just inside the door, and several pairs of trousers. This parcel was found by the police when they discovered the burglary.

Apparently the burglar was disturbed, and departed in a hurry, for he left, besides this parcel, his overcoat, with which was found a pass-ol.it check for a local continuous .picture theatre. The only article missed so far is a Donegal tweed overcoat of a rather conspicuous pattern.

The presence of a carpet just inside the door may be an explanation .as to why the crash of glass was not heard. The till was not touched.