BURGLARY IN CHRISTCHURCH

Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 23

BURGLARY IN CHRISTCHURCH

BOOT SHOP RAIDED. SIXTEEN SOVEREIGNS INCLUDED IN HAUL. CHRISTCHURCH, August 4. Sixteen sovereigns were included in the haul made by thieves wh’o broke into Mr J. J. Begley’s boot shop at 125 Manchester street, on Thursday night. The sovereigns were in a suitcase which belonged to Miss Hurcombe,' a sister-in-law of Mr Begley. The suitcase had been left in the shop with some other luggage. Altogether Miss Hurcombe valued the suitcase and its contents at £35. Boots for both men and women were also taken to the value of somewhere between £lO and £25.

■ “It is very hard to say what stock is gone,” said Mr Begley, “ but I work it out at anywhere between £lO and £25. The lucky part of it is that the burglars missed a box with £25 in it. They removed the box above it, but . missed the important one.” Entrance was gained by breaking a window which faces the . right-of-way alongside Fuller’s Opera House. Ths back door.of “the ’ shop had two locks on it, one of which was forced. 1 It is obvious that the thieves tried to enter this way, but resorted to the window when they found they- could not force the door.Entrance would be fairly easy, as a fence could hide operations, and nobody .live* close to the scene.