THE BURGRS AGAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12326, 20 July 1903, Page 5

THE BURGRS AGAIN.

': Premises fITT-STREET Ej^ED. ■ • ■'*■:....■' - • ■.': •■■■■}.., **'-■' ■ ;'' •, A DARING f.CE OF WORK. Another darin^ Iar y took P lacG on Thursday night wll the undesirable nocturnal 'visito/ vho nave so te cd" 3 d the vigilance of > police, and are holding Auckland's citfl: in : a Bt!lte of terror, broke into ocer 3 r establishment of Mrs, C. 'Wail Situated in Pitt-street, about' 'half -wa^ twcen Hobson and Vincent Streets *i would seem, from the way the bur*? Went about their work, ■hat'.they,V D * spying out the ground '•forehand/ aa 4 i* a d made themselves with the premises, i; they *eoted entry through a door at <» bdci ol ' the building which has a deftive ck, and would offer but little resume* Thence thev mounted the back *rca? and on their way to the front Pjiojof the first floor, where Mr. and hi /aite's bedroom is situated, actually paw through the sleeping apartment in wa two sons, aged about 18 and 16 ye!respectively, were sound asleep, the fax'having retired to their night's rest be&i tun and eleven p.m. Although Mbd Mrs. Waite were in their room— MiTaifc* is said to bo a light sleeper— th&ieveS went about, their work so noiss'ly that their presence was not detecjby the sleepers. After opening two or >o drawers in a chest in one corner, •ndnirig the contents out without comingvrossi anything of value, they evithen ■ proceeded to go through the art! of wearing apparel thrown off by theuipants before retiring. In the ]j>oclof a skirt hung on a peg on the wall* Mrs. Wait*, they found a purse coning some £16 in 'notes and gold, and"* removed from the washstand near the! a second purse which contained bet" £1 and £51 in silver. They did not» the purse with them, but coolly extpd the contents and then added to fhw'oty a casft in which two gold earriniad'been kept. One of the earrings fellt on the bedroom, floor, presumably ■wbrthe. visitors were beating their retreias it was found there in the morning Mr. and Mrs. Waite, who then discovi for the first, time that the burglars hadett exploiting the premises.