BURGLARIES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4466, 20 September 1901, Page 3

BURGLARIES.

PRESS ASSOCIATION. ( DUNEDIN", September 13. j The police captured a man ■'"named | Lee, alias Wilson, the author of numeri ous daylight burglaries. It is supposed Ihe came here from Wellington and Christchurch, arriving on tho 29th of August. Ho is a respectable-looking per.son, and had £2O in money and a get of skeleton keys on his person. His lodgings wore searched, and broken jewellery of all kinds and housebreaking implements were found. His plan was to smash, and smelt gold trinkets, and then sell the gold. (Bv Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH,, September 18. Inquiries made hero do not disclose any large robbery of jewellery or cf money with which tho man arrested in Dunedin might be connected. During tho past three or four months there hare been numerous cases of watches and single articles of jewellery having been lost or stolon. The safe-robberies are not connected with the man who has been taken in charge by the Dunedin police. PALMERSTON, September 18. In connection with the robbery at the premises of C. M. Ross and Co.’s drapery establishment last night, a determined attempt was made to carry awav the safe. Rugs obtained from the clothing department deadened the sound of removing the safe to the floor. Ordinary fencing wire and a piece of gas-piping about two inches in diameter were used to lift the safe. The piping bent, and an endeavour was then made to pick the lock, but without successTho safe contained a substantial turn of money. No stock was taken from tho premises. At midnight last night tho constable patrolling Main street discovered that a shutter had been removed from Mr J. Wingate’s butchering establishment, and another was displaced, giving access to the cash register, tho drawer of which was open. The money, however, was all removed during the previous evening. Several petty robberies have been reported during the past few days. Several private houses have been visited, and wearing apparel taken, while in one instane'e two bicycles were stolen.