THIEVES IN STORE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18284, 30 December 1933, Page 13

THIEVES IN STORE

DIFFICULTY IN LEAVING MELBOURNE', I)cc. 22. The remarkable predicament of being unable for a time to escape from a shop into which they had forced their way was. experienced by thieves who broke jpto Horton’s drapery store in Uollingwood this morning. I The thieves entered the building by climbing on the roof and breaking a skylight. Tjiey shuffled for a distance ol about 12ft. along a ledge below the skylight, 331't. above the floor, and nnujo an even more dangerous passage along a cross-beam tq a gas pipe. They slid safely down th© pipe, bpt ns they reached the lower end their weight tor© a crosspipe from the vertical pipe, and mubh gas escaped.'’ ; , . Disregarding the risk of an explosion, th© thiCv’cs then lighted pieces of' papers and used them as flarps as they searched tlie simp. The window of a showcase was smashed. When they had Collected a quantity of dress materials tlm thievos apiVarehtiy found that they could n'pt escape.by any, pr the doors, Which are fitted with patent locks, or by th© Windows, Which hr© strongly barred. They iridde a rope qf strips of singlet, hpt'thi.s Broke.. Tfjeyjjhep fpim'd a,l}rass holq Autjli h hobk, caught it dn to a beam, Si managed to cljmh up, escaping th© y thqy had ©nterdq. WheA tnp'manager arrived’ai’the shop!' morning, he foun,d it filled with gas.