AUDACIOUS BURGLARY.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18243, 17 July 1931, Page 3

AUDACIOUS BURGLARY.

USED FIRM'S OWN LORRY,

THEFT OF TOBACCO

LARGE REWARD OFFERED,

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 17.

What appears to have been a particularly audacious burglary was carried out on the night of June 29 or early the following morning a. the Wakefield Street premises o. Messrs Goldingham and Beckett, general merchants, resulting in the firm losing £SOO worth of tobacco and cigarettes and a reward of £250 is offered for the return of the goods. It is believed that the thieves entered through the main door or else were on the premises and in hiding before the door was closed. The latter is the most probable as all the keys are accounted for and there is nothing to show that the lock was tampered with. The weight of tobacco taken was seven hundredweight and it was loaded on to one of the firm's lorries standing •Inside the entrance. The lorry was found next day in Cable Street, nearby, undamaged. The thieves' haul was probably loaded on to another vehicle in waiting. A large quantity of patent medicine and matches left on •the lorry overnight was untouched. The lorry might have been driven out as late as six in the morning, when the vicinity is busy with vehicles bringing supplies to the fruit market.