EXPERT BURGLARS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 March 1922, Page 3

EXPERT BURGLARS

HAUL AT AUCKLAND. (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, March 17. A daring burglary was perpetrated at tla* oilices of the Lion Brewery, Khyber Pass Hoad, late on Ihursuay night or early this morning, a large sum of money being taken. The offices arc separated from rhe mun buildings by a roadway. The door from the oilices opens into a yard. Entrance was effected through a back door, which is sheltered by a porch. Inside the porch is a double door, which at night is locked on the inside and protected by a strong wooden bar. A square hole was cut in the panel of the door with an augur to allow a man to reach through, unlock the door and remove the wooden bar. The burglary was well planned as owing to the day being a bank holiday, the cash to pay the wages of th (? brewery staff was drawn from the bank on Thursday and lodged in the safe in the strongroom of the offices. Both strong room ami safe floors wore opened bv nrans of keys. Most of the cash which was locked in the cash boxes, was taken. One small box was overlooked. The 1 mks o F the cash boxes wm- e forced after a-hey had b°en taken from the stromrroom. Exact information remardiam t'’« , r nnn”t token is not a ail-’b’e. but it is understood it exceeds -.fffi 0 T hn Im’-fdar op b'U'ulars must teve worked both silently and o-neffitteuslv, as four nmn wore wooing in tlm bre’ vovv only a short d ; stance from t T e offices.