THIEF ROBS SAFE
QUEEN STREET OFFICE THEFTS DURING WEEK-END /' A safe -in the office of Mr. WfBl! Scholium, estate agent, on the first floor of the Royal Insurance Building, Queen Street, was robbed on Friday night, £l3 in notes and silver being stolen. The safe was opened with a key. When Mr. Scholium arrived at hi» office shortly before nine o'clock on Saturday morning ho found the door ajar. Close to the lock were marks made by a jemmy or similar instrument. Mr. Scholium went into the room and sow the safe door open. Alt the money was there the night before was gone, but nothing else in the safe or the oflice' was disturbed.
A burglar climbed through a back window of the Arts Hair in Kitchener Street on Sunday night and stole a quantity of cigarettes from the stall near the front door. His search for money went unrewarded. The same night the front window of IJr. S. W. Rickard's drapery shop on the Great North Road, New Lynn, was and a man's coat stolen. As far as the proprietor could discover, nothing els# was taken.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23021, 26 April 1938, Page 10
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