BURGLARIES AT EPSOM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14225, 23 November 1909, Page 5

BURGLARIES AT EPSOM.

■THREE houses / entered. TWO .VALUABLE HAULS. raBEE burglaries occurred in • the Epsom district on Saturday night, which tend to '.-■/ gjj 0 w that occupants of houses, and particularly of two-storey structures with verandahs and balconies, would do well. fißln's'future' to immediately investigate the • (causes of Strang* noises which may occur ■ " tin their residences at night lime. In the Vases in question the houses under notice ' are of the double-storey order, and on Saturday evening the occupants of these 5 - dwellings, while in the rooms on the ' . lower .floor, heard someone moving over- '".'■( head, hut thinking, in each instance, that it was perhaps the servant or some mem- | ber of the family,-they did not cause in- - quiries to be made, and found later that ' 'the'upper rooms had been ransacked and iproperty of considerable value taken. 1 The residences thus visited were those '<jf:Mr. D. Fetrie, chief inspector for the • Auckland Education Board, and of Mr. 1 ')h. A. Gordon, civil engineer, both in '-■ ' Banfurly Road, and of Mr. E. C. Firth, fa Mount St. John Road. In each instance the burglar effected his entrance • . bv climbing the verandah pole on to the balcony and getting in by the upstairs windows, which were open. It is assum- ' ■ ed, judging from the closeness of the times at which the burglaries were committed—between eight and nine p.m.— 'Othat they were perpetrated by the same jman, and if this is so he was well regarded for his efforts. At Mr. Firth's

Incidence goods to the value of £55 were f ' *taken, and at Mr. Petrie's £20 worth fo ■. •property was missed. At Mr. Gordon's ■.. house however, the intruder did not fare i '> so \ ; well, I- only getting away with some : small articles to the value of 30s, and as others of greater value of a portable na--1 ture were left, it is. believed that the f, 'jniscreant must have been disturbed.