BURGLARY AND INCENDIARISM
FIVE FIRES STARTED. WELLINGTON, January 19. On Tuesday night burglars entered the shop of Mr Norman E. Aitken, bookseller, . Courtney place, and took away -with them money and goods to the value of about £B, and started fires in five different places on the premises. Entrance w^as' gained by taking out a window which faces the backyard of an adjoining fruit shop. : . Small-. sums .of silver kept, in various "■drawers ■ fer— early morning -change were taken : and- fi IS6: quantities of' tobacco and perfumery were not neglected. Thirty shillings worth of penny stamps were taken from one drawer, and then burnt on a bookledge at the opposite side oU tho shop. Another fire was started near to dozens of boxes of matches? A third fire had burnt a big hole in one counter, and it was more by good luck than anything else the whole shop was not burnt.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3802, 25 January 1927, Page 16
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152BURGLARY AND INCENDIARISM Otago Witness, Issue 3802, 25 January 1927, Page 16
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