The Take-it-easy Burglars

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 157, 6 July 1936, Page 5

The Take-it-easy Burglars

Burglars who took £I,OOO in cash, postal orders and stamps from Balham Hill Post Office (England) do not believe in hurry. Leisurely they planned, and leisurely they carried out their plan. And so all went well.

First, walking calmly along opposite Clapfcam South tube station, they got into the warehouse of Messrs. Young and Co., wholesale ironmongers, three doors away from the post office, sometime during tho week-end. Here they rummaged among tho stock until they found all the tools they needed —a complete set of drills, braces and bits, screwdrivers. Then on to tho roof and along to the post office premises. Systematically they removed 24 slates, leaving comfortablo room to climb down a rope into tho top floor. Easy, then, to force tho door into the office. Time for a rest. Sandwiches? Thanks. Now to move the safe, to rip its back off. Quietly boys, there’s plenty of time. Then to empty it—work of a jiffy, this. Then to get out. Quietly to slouch away, liko any casual lounger. And so to bed. So it was that the burglary was not discovered until tho lock-up post Office was opened for business on the Monday. Mr Wharton, the postmaster, told a reporter: ‘‘They must havo been a good time over the job. Some of their sandwiches they left behind, with tho tools they had stolen from the ironmongers. Another set of Durglars, who broke into Abbey Park bus and tram depot and stole a queer cargo of two tons of mixed metal, including nuts and bolts, are also believed to havo made a leisurely getaway—by canal barge.