CHLOROFORM USED IN DARING STORE THEFT
Cook Street Premises PROPRIETOR AND WIFE RENDERED INSENSIBLE CIGARETTES AND CASH TAKEN. Monday’s tornado was only two doors away from Mr. A. J. Edwards’ grocery shop at the corner of Cook and Ferguson streets, but the premises escaped that visitation unscathed. However, had it returned in the early hours of the morning and levelled the place, Mr. Edwards would hardly have been aware of it. It is stated that about 2 o’clock, entrance was forced from the rear of the premises, which are shop and living quarters combined and stealthy hands found their way to the sleeping forms of Mr. aud Airs. Edwards . They were then supposedly heavily chloroformed, evidence lying in tho fact that tho room was permeated by the familiar sickly odour. Any prospect of an alarm being raised having been so desperately removed, the thief or thieves entered the storeroom at tho other side of the passage and removed about ten boxes of cigarettes. They also took cash from a repository in the shop to the amount of £lO.
Air. Edwards and the police are reticent.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6947, 28 June 1929, Page 6
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185CHLOROFORM USED IN DARING STORE THEFT Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6947, 28 June 1929, Page 6
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