Burgling the Gladstone Bond.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6309, 6 August 1888, Page 3

Burgling the Gladstone Bond.

Early on Sunday Sergeant O'Malley, in charge of the Lyttelfcon Police Station,' wa3 informed by a young man named Clark that he had discovered, while going in the i direction o£ the Gladstone Pier, a brandy j case, broken open and part of the contents gone. The police at once proceeded to the spot, and were not long in concluding that the case had been taken from one of the bonded warehouses in the vicinity. Upon ! making an examination of these they dis- ! covered that the locks of the Gladstone Bond, used by Messrs Edwards, Bennett and Co., merchants or" Christchurch, had been smashed. The Gladstone Bond is erected on the reclaimed ground close to the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's wool Btoro, and is built of brick. The case was found about 100 yards from the store, and close to where a number of the Council's employees have recently been engaged quarrying stone from the hill. Of the two dozen bottles in the case eighteen had been broken and their contents made use of, while the remaining six bottles were intact. This, and the fact that so far nothing else is missing from the store, incline the police to believe that the affair is the work of some sailors, with a desire probably to have a " cheap drunk." Sergeant O'Malley placed an officer in charge until the locks were renewed. Daring Saturday nightfive or six sailors were arrested for being drunk, but the police have no evidence to connect them with the robbery.