THIEF REMOVES CASH REGISTER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18787, 17 June 1929, Page 5

THIEF REMOVES CASH REGISTER.

ESCAPES IN CAR WITH BIG HAUL. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH. June 16. When a customer entered Mr V. C. Stephens's baker's shop on Saturday night he gave an order which necessitated a short absence of the attendant from the front shop. When she returned the customei had disappeared. and she had a feeling that something else was missing, but she could not think what it was. She summoned the proprietor, who decided it was the cash register that was missing. lie rushed out and saw a car dash up the street. Thus was disclosed a most impudent theft. The register contained £l7, and it is valued at £6O, and weighs seventy pounds. A young man drove up to the shop in an expensive sedan car, and evidently watched the premises for about ten minutes. A pedestrian saw him hurry cut of the shop carrying something heavy, covered with a travelling rug. He placed his burden in the back of the car and quickly drove away. The theft was committed at the busiest hour of the evening, about eight, and when the footpaths were filled with pedestrians and customers passing in and out of the shops.