BURGLARIES IN CITY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12056, 11 July 1917, Page 4

BURGLARIES IN CITY.

PREMISES ENTERED. Minor burglaries have boon reported in Christchurch recently. Several premises have been entered, but in no case has anything of value been taken. Last) week the premises of Messrs M'Clatchio and Co., in Hereford Street, were entered through a back window. The burglars got into the front office, disturbed many papers and ransacked two tills, but took nothing, for the simple reason that there was nothing to take, everything of value having been placed in the strongroom. A similar unsatisfactory result, from the professional point of view, was obtained at the office of the firm's siding in Moorhouse Avenue, which was entered on the same night. Messrs Kinsey and Co.'s offices in Hereford Street also received attention last week, and them also the burglars were doomed to disappointment. On Monday night attention was turned in the direction of the branch post office in High Street. An entrance was made by means of the mail room, at the back of the premises. Protecting wire, was torn from the glass panels of a door, the. glass was broken, and a hole was made sufficiently largo to admit a man's body. The burglars. afn-r disarranging the mail room, went into (he public room and then to the postmaster's room. The drawer of the postmaster's desk was forced open, and pigeon-holes and shelves were ransacked. Yesterday a thorough in.-,portio:i was made by the officers of the Department, but they could discover nothing that had gone missing.

BURGLARS TX DUNEDIN. Tlir> " Ota go Daily Times'* states that Mr "W. -Hutchinson'-, hoot- -shop in King Street north was entered by burglars oho night. Inst week. and out of In's complete Meek, valued at- about £(jf), l)oots worth .C IO were stolen, 'iiio burglars evidently used a skeleton key. On Saturday ni-hi. Mr Hutchinson was going home after iuliilling his duties as a doorkeeper at >'• •• Mr-jesty's Theatre, and, when Mr .Larry's saddlery shop, near ilie Museum, he noticed <a man standing on the footpath. Almost simultaneously another man came out of the shop and slammed the door. Mr Hutchinson became suspicious, and called "Police, police, ' and, as the incident took, place near the North Dunedin police station, a policeman was soon on band. Both men had by this time gob some distance away, and they were not overtaken by the policeman. .It will be rather disquieting to the ]>eople of Dunedin to learn that, several cases of premises being entered by burglars have, been reported to the police within the past two or three months, and it behove.'; all to see that tbeii houses are securely locked, and to ke~p a sharp lookout for suspicious-looking characters.