ROBBERY.

Grey River Argus, 4 February 1927, Page 5

ROBBERY.

AT DANNEVIRKE. DANNEVIRKE, February 3. Between 10.30 and midnight yesterday, the premises of Stubbs and Millar, jewellers, in the centre of the business portion of the town, were burglarised. Entrance was effected by forcing the front door. The safe was unlocked, and the contents. mostly diamond rings, valued at about two thousand pounds, were removed. Nothing was taken from the other portion of the shop. The police arc investigating. FURTHER DETAILS. DANNEVIRKE, Feb. 3. In the past Dannevirke has been remarkably free from anything in the nature of serious burglaries, but this record was broken on ednesday right by the sensational coup dt th i premises of Stubbs and Millar, jewellers whose shop.is situated in the heart of the business area, which is usually lighted all night. Between 10.30 p.m. and 12.30 a.m., the shop was visited and burgled. Entrance was effected through the front door being forced. The intruder then, by some means, unlocked the strongroom, and abstracted goods, mostly diamond rings. The goods were valued, after the proprietors had taken stock, at about £lOOO. When the nightwatchman passed about 11 p.m., he noticed that the light llmt is usually burning over the safe, was out. He tried the door, and found it locked. Cm returning about an hour later, the door was unlocked. He informed the police, who made a search and found the safe open. There was no trace of the intruder, who apparently left by the same way as lie entered.

Whether the coup was the work of the cracksmen who have been operatingnt the railway stations at Levin and Pahiatua is not known; 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 employed were quite different. The police have the matter in hand. BURGLARY. AUCKLAND, Feb. 3. The general drapery store of A. and M. Booth, Manakau Road, was burglariously entered on Tuesday, and dress goods to the value of between £5O and £lOO were removed. Other o-oods were strewn on the floor and damaged through being tramped upon. Entrance was effected by breaking a window at the rear of the shop. The goods were evidently removed in a motor truck, borrowed from an adjoining garage, and returned to the garage before daylight. The neighbourhood has recently had an epidemic of burglar-

FOURFENCE REWARD FOR BURGLAR. WELLINGTON, February 3. The premises of Donnelly and Son, in Cuba Street, were broken into on Wednesday night. A cash register was taken. It was found later with a draw holding fourpence missing. JURY DISAGREE. WELLINGTON, Feb. 3. The jury failed to agree in the Supreme Court to-day, when Thomas O’Hara was charged before the Chie: Justice 'with attempting to break and enter a warehouse with intent tc commit theft. Hearing a noise and investigating, two clerks in Hie N.Z. Farmers’ Distributing Coy. foun-o tw . men, both previous employees of the firm, standing beneath a broken window. The men ran over a railway 'ine one being knocked down by a. passing train, and seriously injured. The accused stated to a detective that his companion had broken the -window out of spite. A new trial was ordered fw Monday. Bail was allowed, condition :il on his reporting to the. police daily.