EPIDEMIC OF BURGLARIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19255, 20 August 1924, Page 7

EPIDEMIC OF BURGLARIES.

AUCKLAND’S UNENVIABLE EXPERIENCE (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 19. Burglars continue active in the city and suburbs. Last night the office of the Tam aka Rawmilling Company at Newmarket was entered, and an attempt was made to blow open the safe. The locks held, however, and the task was abandoned. The office was lansacked, but nothing of value was taken. A butcher’s shop in the vicinity was also entered, but there was no money on the premises. During the week-end a draper’s shop in Kingsland was entered, and boys’ suits and caps were stolen. On Saturday afternoon, during the occupants’ absence, a house at. Epsom was ransacked, clothing and jewellery being taken. The most daring robbery was perpetrated in Shortland street shortly after 2.30 p.m., when a man snatched a bank slip book containing £SO from a young woman who was taking the money to the bank. There were £2O in notes and £3O in cheques in, the hook, which a woman typist employed in the city was carrying, apparently under her arm. When she felt a tup under be* arm, she turned and saw a young man running away, and though passers-by gave ohaso the thief escaped.