ATTEMPTED BURGLARY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6872, 16 July 1909, Page 7

ATTEMPTED BURGLARY

WOULD-BE ROBBERS DISAPPEAR. Just on midnight last night an attempt was made to break into the premises of Messrs Bannatyn© and Hunter, at tho comer of Allen and Victoria streets. The firm has a valuable stock, including a considerable quantity of tobacco and silverware. When John Shcedy, a private patrol watchman, was going the round of the fruit markets in that neighbourhood, he heard the crash of glass, and, hastening in tho direction whence the sound came, saw two men walking from the warehouse towards Te Aro Railway Station. Sheedy sounded his police whistle, which attracted the attention, first of Constable T. Mahoney, and afterwards of Sergeant McCrorie, of the Mount Cook Police Station. Th© nightwabchinan and constable searched around by th© station and the dock site for the two men, but they had disappeared. Examination at the warehouse showed that two padlocks pf the front door had been removed by the use of skeleton keys, but a Tale lock had proved too tough an obstacle for the men. They had apparently attempted to burst in the door, as a pickaxe was found on the doorstep. Failing in this, attention was directed to the rear of the warehouse, whore a window was smashed. The noise of the falling glass proved fatal to th© , men’s designs.