DARING BURGLARIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20986, 24 September 1931, Page 10

DARING BURGLARIES.

MOUNT EDEN HOME ROBBED. CHILDREN NOT AWAKENED. While the three young children of Mr. Lawrence Stevens were asleep in their home, 40, Wairiki Road, Mount Eden, last evening, a thief entered the house and removed various sums of money totalling £4. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens were away from the house between 8.30 p.m. and 10.45 p.m. and on returning found that tho intruder had ransacked every room in the house The thief evidently was only looking for money, and left other valuables untouched. Apparently lie had watched Mr. and Mrs. Stevens leave the house. An attempt was made to break in by tho hack door but as this failed the thief forced a window at the back of the house. r In the kitchen he found an attache case which lie opened and removed from it a valuable wallet containing, private papers but, no money. In other parts of the house the intruder secured £2 10s and stole the children's money box containing about 10s and a missionary box containing about, £1 6s. The thief left by the front door, which was found to be ajar although it had been locked. THIEF AT NORTHCOTE. GROCER ROBBED OF £l3. A tin ccntaining £l3 was stolen from the shop of Mr. ti. R. McCathie, grocer, of Northcote, yesterday afternoon. The tin was used by Mr. McCathie for holding notes and was generally kept on a shelf behind the counter. It was intact, early yesterday afternoon, but it, could not, bo found when a search was made later. It. is believed that someone familiar with Mr. McCathio's method of handling cash removed the tin when his attention was engaged elsewhere. | WELLINGTON INTRUDER. MONEY TAKEN FROM BEDROOMS. | [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. J j WELLINGTON, Wednesday, j Awakened in the early hours of a recent I morning by unusual sounds in his honso, a I resident of Burnell Avenue, Tliorndon, I turned on tho light and saw a strange | man. The intruder dashed down t lie j stairs closely put sued by the owner of the house, but ho made his escape. This is not the only incident of its kind that has happened in Burnell Avenue during the past week or so, and residents in tho vicinity now know the man familiarly as the "cat burglar." His I practice is to enter a house by a window and open both front and back doors, taking the keys. Ho then cither cuts the electric light wires or turns off the current at the main switch, so that bo can make his escape with tho minimum difficulty. Ho has secured only small sums of money.