BURGLARIES IN DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 998, 17 April 1891, Page 13

BURGLARIES IN DUNEDIN.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, April 13. Quite a number of premises were burglariously entered on Saturday evening or Sunday night. At Sparrow and Co.’s foundry on Saturday night Mr Sparrow returned to the office about 8.30, just in time to disturb the burglars, who escaped by a side window. The drawers had been pulled about, but the burglars did not get anything. They were evidently bnsy at the safe when disturbed, as it was in the middle of the floor, and ia another quarter of an hour it would have been opened. It contained £3O. Mr Joseph Sparrow’s offioe near the wharf was also entered, but though everything was turned over no money was found. The New Zealand Implement Co.’s works were entered, and £ls taken from a drawer which was broken open with a hammer. Toe pre-nicee of Mr A. Burns, agent for the Wood’s hinder, were also broken open, but nothing was taken. DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. Dunedin, April 15. William Nicholls and George Berry were committed for trial to day for robbing a man in daylight. The man who was robbed had come ia from the country, and was about several hotels with accused. He was warned to quit the company he was in, and re*entered a right-of-way to do so when Nicholls demanded his money iov/ safe keeping. On his deolining Nicholls knocked him down and rifled his pockets, telling a woman who remonstrated with him to mind her own business. He took £1 15s from the prosecutor. Some time later Berry not knowing that Nicholls had gone through ” the man rifled his pockets on finding him in a closet, bat there was then no money to take. The affair took place in daylight, just off one of the main streets.