THIEVES IN THE CITY

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11910, 18 August 1924, Page 6

THIEVES IN THE CITY

HOTEL ENTERED VISITOR RELIEVED OF WARDROBE AND MONEY. A CLEAN SWEEP. One of- the gangs of sneak thieves which every now and then make their unwelcome presence felt visited Wei lington a few days ago, and so far has escaped with a haul of clothing and Homo money. The .thieves entered a residential hotel in the city on a recent evening, and selected as their victim a visitor from Sydney, whom they seemed to know had brought jvith him on his holiday a fairly extensive wardrobe. Probably they judged by this that he had also a considerable sum of money in his room. EVERYTHING TAKEN. The visitor’s room was entered, and an absolutely clean sweep was made of the whole of his possessions—suits, underclothing, boots, collars, every thing. There was some money in the room, and this went too. The tourist was left with only the clothing he wore while the halanoe of his outfit was being spirited away. It is probable the thieves expected to find more money, but it happened there was rathei little in the room, most of what was. forwarded from Australia being still in one of the banks litre. However, the visitor is much inconvenienced. and has had to rearrange his trip. WENT II r THE NIGHT. In a suburban district a resident who went away for the week-end left a quantity of garden and carpenter’* tools in a lumber room, but omitted;to look the door. On his return to hti home he found that the best of the tools, had been taken and that even the suit he gardened in had gone. As the neighbours were able to watch the place in daytime and saw no one about it is believed the thief came at night.

THE HOUSEHOLDER'S MOTTO. As other somewhat similar occurrences have been reported, it seems that a householder’s motto must be: "Look the doors.”