SEQUEL TO BURGLARY.
SUSPECT BEFORE COURT
DARING CITY ROBBERY.
RECOVERY OF BURIED GOODS. - Having just, served a term of three months' imprisonment on a charge of being nn idle and disorderly person, Cecil Francis Hunt, aged 24, was arrested during the week-end, and he appeared iri tho Police Court yesterday on a chargo of breaking and entering the shop of Meltzer Brothers, pawnbrokers, in Victoria Street West, and stealing jewellery, prismatic glassos and a violin, of a total value of £l2O.
When Hunt was sent to prison 011 July 3 Chief-Betectivo Hammond said ho was suspected of having carried out tho Meltzer burglary. When Hunt appeared yesterday, Chief-Detective Hammond asked for a remand until Thursday, and this was granted by the magistrate. Mr. F. K. Hunt.
A quantity of tho stolen goods was recovered on Sunday. Detectives, who have been continuing investigations, .found the property buried in a kerosene tin- in a section at New Lynn. The articles were identified by a member of the firm of Meltzer Brothers.
The burglary 3t Meltzer Brothers' 6hop occurred on the night of June 25, and it was particularly daring. Tho thief gained entrance by cutting a hole in the roof, and then he jumped into the shop through a manhole in the ceiling. It is thought the thief spent a considerable time in tho shop collecting articles, which were removed through tho manhole and the bole in the roof.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20084, 23 October 1928, Page 10
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