THREE CANDIDATES AT THE COMING GENERAL ELECTION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 48

THREE CANDIDATES AT THE COMING GENERAL ELECTION.

BURGLARY IN CHRISTCHURCH.

CIiRISTCHURCH, October 15. Further developments have occurred in connection with the recent arreste by Deitvti Jas. Kennedy and Eade of two men on a number of charges of l'urglary in the Islington district. It is 1 stated that a few weeks ago a resident in the neighbourhood of Christchurch paid a

holiday visit to Sydney, and when he came back found that nearly all the furniture in his house had been removed, lock, stock, and barrel. The modus operandi is described by the detectives as "a regular American dodge," and it is the first time a burglary of this nature has occurred in the Canterbury district. It is alleged that the men were on a recent night seen at Islington carrying a chest of drawers (from which the drawers had been extracted) on a couple of poles slung on 6traps attached

bo their shoulders, and that as soon as they were observed they hurriedly decamped, leaving the empty chest of drawers on the roadside. It is thought that most of the furniture has been burned, but a number of household effects, including curtains, were found in the house occupied by one of the men before mentioned, and as a sequel they will have to answer to an extra charge of theft in addition to those charges which have already been preferred against them.