DARING BURGLARY IN GISBORNE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9823, 13 June 1914, Page 5

DARING BURGLARY IN GISBORNE.

THIEF CLEANS OUT JEWELLLR'S WINDOW. £2OOO WORTH OF STOCK MISSING. CASES OF VALUABLE RINGS OVERLOOKED.. (Pbb Pbbsh Association.) GISBORNE, June 13. A 'daring burglary was effected last, night, the jewellery in the window of H. J. Grieve being broken into and valuable jewellery in the window cleaned out. Mr Grieve estimates his los 3at £2OOO. Entry was made by a back window, the iron bars being drawn together by a rope and the latch prized off. It had been Mr Gricve's custom to leave the jewellery in the window at night, the whole establishment being brilliantly lit. A weak point, however, noted by the burglars was that a curtain screen, immediately inside the window, hiding some of the jewel- [ lery from the sctreet, enabled them to operate without being observed. The contents of the window were abstracted, and the cases left tidily on the floor. Nothing in the shop itself was touched, and a case of diamonds rings, the most valuable in the whole shop, which stood on a shelf in the window, was missed by the thieves. There are no clues so far. The crime is believed to have been committed between 1.40 a.m. and 3 a.m., the discovery being made by the proprietor of an adjoining bakery, who observed that the back window had been tampered with. Mr Grieve was not insured against burglary.