AN AUDACIOUS BURGLARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3330, 9 January 1918, Page 53

AN AUDACIOUS BURGLARY.

TAUMARUNUI, January 3-

Tho police have been following up cluei in connection with a burglary committed on Christmas morning, when £3CO worth of jewellery was stolen from the safe or Messrs Frankland and Hart, butchers, whera. , it was placed for safo keeping by Mr Win* ' ■Wallen, an adjoining shopkeeper. M* Frankland had fortunately removed his takings of £3OO from tho safe the previous night, and remembers that after the time of the burglary his bedroom door in the hotel was tried by someone, who found it locked. Tho burglars were evidently looking for the money they expected to find | in the safo. Mr Frankland had foolishly : made known in town that he had a good; sum of money on hand, and was staying" homo for the holidays to protect it. Detective Cooney and Sergeant Miller, searching the Wanganui River bed near the tennis courts, discovered a. tin box which con- ' tained the jewellery when stolen. It was ; also found that a sack had been used to carry the spoils away. The tin and sack were both damaged by the explosions in the safe.'' Twenty chains from the first find a cardboard holder and £ls worth of jewellery were discovered. Further developments are expected shortly.