AUDACIOUS THEFT
WOMAN’S TELL-TALE NOTE SUM OF MONEY TAKEN. (Per United v Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 13. Having broken into the house of Mr H. W. Bateman, 37 Hobart street, Miramar, to-day, a thief secured £7 and the contents of a child’s money box, after ransacking the house. Mrs Bateman left her home about *0.30 a.m. to visit. She locked the doors, and left a note for a roundsman to leave a certain quantity of vegetables. When she returned about 5.15 p.m. she found that the house had been ransacked. So far as can be ascertained, the thieves’ only reward was £7 in notes and the contents of the child’s money box, which had been battered open for pennies which it contained. The notes were in a wardrobe which was locked. The key had been wrapped up in paper and placed in a drawer. The thief found this and, discovering that it fitted the lock of the wardrobe, he opened it and thus secured the major part of his haul.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21542, 14 January 1932, Page 11
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170AUDACIOUS THEFT Otago Daily Times, Issue 21542, 14 January 1932, Page 11
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