OFFICE RAIDED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20702, 27 April 1929, Page 6

OFFICE RAIDED.

A YOUTHFUL ESCAPADE INTRUDERS BENT ON DESTRUCTION. (Special to Dailv Times.) AUCKLAND, April 26, A destructive raid was carried out some time between Wednesday evening and this morning at the engineering factory of Messrs Booth, Macdonald, Ltd., on the northern side of the Penrose overhead bridge. When the staff returned to work today after the Anzac Day holiday the main office and the office of the manager presented a sorry spectacle. The floors were strewn with letters, plans, and other office papers. Windows were smashed, telephones, time clocks, and mptal patterns were broken, and general disorder prevailed. Footprints in many parts of the works were suggestive of a youthful escapade. Entrance to the main building had been gained through a lavatory by the breaking of the heavy glass _ window with an axe. It is understood that a small amount of cash was removed from a private drawer in the manager’s room, but this evidently did not satisfy the intruders and so they made plans to get into the main office. Not by bursting the locked doors did they proceed, .but by the far more picturesque method of climbing the fixtures in an adjoining room to a height of about 20 feet, crawling over the top of the partition, making fast a rope, and sliding down sailor fashion to the office. . more , or le ss clumsy attempt on the big safe did not result in the extraction of any valuables, all of the sections being well locked.