BIG ROBBERY.

Grey River Argus, 25 July 1922, Page 6

BIG ROBBERY.

burglars get eig haul. SAFE REMOVED FROM PREMISES. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 24. Messrs Wallace and Company’s store at Pokeuo was entered by burgh rs on Thursday night. The safe was removed, and £230 in cash and cheques £5O in debentures, £lOO in jewellery,, 5t pounds of tobacco, a quantity of cigarettes and several pairs of boots were stolen. It is understood the burgl: rs used a two-wheeled truck used in the stori to remove the safe to a motor car. The safe was found next morning on the roadside. Residents in the neighbourhood heard four shots during the night, apparently the work of the burglars in opening the safe, which was open and damaged. From traces it is apparent that the burglars got off the road in removing the booty, for a car was stuck in the mud near where the safe was recover cd. The occupants of the car obtained the assistance of a farmer to pull them out of the mud at six o’clock in the morning. OTHER AUCKLAND ROBBERIES. AUCKLAND, July 24. The residence of Charles Jarden at New Lynn was entered last n: nd £26 was stolen. AUCKLAND, July 24. Leonard Tozer and Herbert Alfred Watts were committed for sentence for theft of £33/16/6 from a drainage contracting job, intended as wages. Watts was further charged with breaking and entering a warehouse, and stealing goods valued at £2O. He plead ed guilty and was committed for sentence.