MAID TERRIFIED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 451, 3 January 1934, Page 5

MAID TERRIFIED

Thieves in House RAIDS ON AUCKLAND HOMES CLOTHING AND JEWELLERY Terrified, a maid sat locked in her bedroom with the sound of thieves around her at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Malcolm, 15 Victoria Avenue, Remuera, Auckland, on Friday night. She was too afraid to move and ring for the police in case she should disturb the thieves and be assaulted. She writed for an hour and a quarter for the return of her employers. In the meantime the thieves escaped with stolen goods out of a french window at the front of the house. The maid arrived homo about 11.45 p.m. As soon as she got to her room| she found that thieves had been at work for the room had been ransacked. Then she heard noises upstairs. She locked her door and waited. Sim heard movements, in other parts of the house.

' When Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm arrived, home about one o'clock they found that their borne had been carefully ransacked. Drawers had been turned out and cothes pulled from wardrobes. The thieves made a strange selection. They stole men's collars, towels, a kettle, a rug. a suitcase, a box of soap and a valuable gold wristlet watch.

; Jewellery Stolen ! Jewellery valued at over £25 was ! stolen from the home of Mr. and Mrs. j E. C. Cording, 5 Tirohatiga Avenue, off Victoria Avenue. The burglary was carried out on Saturday night, and the house is not far from the home of the Malcolms which was j raided the previous evening. , By j smashing a glass panel in the back ! door, and slipping a hand through to I turn the lock, the thief entered the I house and ransacked every room. j Several pieces of jewellery and a

I small sum of money were stolen. : Preparations had also apparently I been made to steal linen for a conj sidcrabic quantity was found ready j packed.

i Greatest success for th»3 J thieves who are carrying out • raids on Remuera homes came at j a house at 4 Lucerne Road, where j clothes, jewellery and money of a total value of £SO were stolen. ! The owners of the house are conI vinced that the thieves were hid. j ing on an upstairs balcony while j they changed early last evening j to go out for dinner.

| ! The owners arrived home from the j i races' about 6 o'clock, made a quick j ! change and went out again about : j <i.30., When they returned about 11! j o'clock they found that the place • had been ransacked. The thieves had I broken in through a French window | at the side of the house and had , carried out a most careful search. | j Valuable jewellery and £5 in money j I besides a whole wardrobe of expen. j I sive summer frocks were stolen. j There were indications that several i ! frocks had been tried on. They were j found inside out tosed back into a ; J wardrobe. An expensive coat and a j j tailored costume were among the i j missing clothes. | Thieves Have a Party j Traces of a bright New ¥ear party i i were left by thieves who broke into, I the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. P.' j Evans, 60 Great South Road, on Sun- j day night. Scraps of cake and empty j bottles of soft drink were found in | the kitchen, and two of the beds ap- j pcared to have been slept in. ! ; Again the "job" gave indications j | that a woman had been at work, j Frocks had obviously been tried on, j J and some of them had been split uni der the arms. Powder had been scat- j ; tered all over The floor as though it j I had been thrown about. |

! Residents next door discovered next i morning that the house had been en- ! j tered. Entrance hod been gained by j j reaching through a fanlight and open- ! | ing a window. The owners were away j I but when they returned they found j i that nothing had been stolen. (