GREAT HAUL OF CIGARS
Something like 25,000 cigars of the finest quality and valued at £4500 were stolen in a raid on the warehouse of Martins, Limited, cigar merchants, London, lately. When the first employee arrived in the morning he found that several interior doors had been forced, and the premises were in great disorder. Officials of the firm said they believed that the thieves, after breaking through the glass roof, lowered themselves to a gallery. The goods were hauled up by an accomplice on the roof and lowered into the yard, where there was probably a van waiting. " The thieves showed excellent taste in picking the very best quality," said an official of the firm. A reward of 10 per cent of the value, as ultimately fixed, was offered for the arrest of the thieves and the recovery of the stock.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22030, 9 February 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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142GREAT HAUL OF CIGARS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22030, 9 February 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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