BURGLARS AGAIN AT WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15003, 27 May 1912, Page 8

BURGLARS AGAIN AT WORK

A NEAT. JOB AT" NEWMARKET.

A SAFE DYNAMITED AND MONEY STOLEN. .. ' ;

Yet another burglary took place on Friday night, when the premises of the Taupo Totara Timber Co. at Newmarket were visited by burglars, who opened a safe with explosives, and abstracted about, Neither the night watchman who is employed on the premises nor passers-by heard anything untoward during the night, but when the firm's clerks arrived oh Saturday morning they found the door at the.back of the premises open. The door of the safe was also open, and three small cash-boxes containing about £10 *7ere gone. The books in the safe were not disturbed, • and the flange of the safe door had been very neatly blown off. without anything else being damaged. Skeleton keys were evidently used to gain access to ! the premises, as the door which was found | open had not been tampered with in any way. .

"A BOOM IK BURGLARY."

AUSTRALIAN" JUDGES READY.

[FROM OVR OWN COBBESPONDENT.] Sydney, May 18. There are distinct evidences that a wave of crime like a wave of weather can march steadily across a continent. The advance edge of the burglary wave which a little while ago harassed Sydney has moved right across Melbourne on to Adelaide, where people are now buying revolvers at the same rate as helped to enrich hardware merchants in eastern cities lately. A burglar who a few days ago robbed a well-known merchant residing at

North Adelaide regaled himself with pigeon pie and custard before getting to business,; then he awoke his victim, made him get out of bed on the opposite side, apd obliged him to hand over whatever cash/he had. This money was received with simply a grant and the burglar then coolly marched out, halting only to help himself to half a dozen choice cigars. ,■ _ ; An 18-year-old young fellow, who-dnring the height of the boom here tried his pre : tice hand as an armed burglar.. hut ,was promptly grabbed by. the neck and } marched off to the police station -by an « IndignaAfc householder of North Sydney, has been sen-' tenced to a year's imprisonment*. Not so much on his own merits as a burglar but as a sort of deterrent to others. This young fellow, according to his father,, haji always been of excellent habits and conduct, but had shown undue fondness for sensational

literature. ? •• That the judges here are able to rise- to a height required by public needs was expressed in grimly humorous by one of them the other day when he* said at the. sentencing of a burglar "if there is a boom in burglary there is going to. be a-boonLin sentences." ; ■■': '':.:•'''