DARING BURGLARY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 223, 19 April 1933, Page 3

DARING BURGLARY

Railway Station Entered KEYS TAKEN FROM CLERK'S POCKET Press Association. —Copyright. Duuedin, April IS.—Some time during last night the railway station at Balclutha was broken into by thieves and the safe was opened. The burglary was of a particularly daring nature as the thief first visited the residence of the stationmaster, Mr. W. C. Cunliffe, Lanark Street, gaining entrance through a scullery window and then unlocking the kitchen door. He entered the bedroom where the stationmaster and his wife slept and searched through Mr. Cuniiffe's trousers but failed to find the keys of the safe. The thief next visited the house of Mr. N. Wilkinson, railway clerk, Douglas Street, where he opened the window of a spare room and, entering Mr. Wilkinson's bedroom, secured the keys of the two station safes from the sleeper's trousers, which had been left at the foot of the bed.

At the railway station the front door was forced and a small safe opened, but the cash-box, containing £2 12s, was left behind. So far as is known no cash was taken. The ticket cabinet was unlocked but no tickets were removed.