EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE IN LAWRENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4898, 9 October 1901, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE IN LAWRENCE.

About 2 o'clock on Saturday morning the windows of the premises occupied by Mr K. S. Poison, chemist, RoB3 Place, were demolished by some individual in a most deliberate and business-like manner, a number of large jars and bottles being also destroyed in the process of wrecking the windows About the hour mentioned it is understood that Mr Swanwick, who lives next door, was awakened by the smashing of glass, but on coming out into the street nobody was to be seen, the window-wrecker having evidently been prepared for his work, which was carried out expeditiously and in a wholesale manner. The two large panes of glass in each of the two windows of the shop were destroyed as well as the two glass panels of the door and, as already stated, a number of large glass jars were knocked into fragments. Neither stones nor other missiles were found inside tbe shop, which points to the inference that the demolition oE the windows was carried out with a stick or iron bar or some such weapon that permitted of the dastardly act being effected without any* dangerous delay. Everything points to the fact that the outrage was premeditated and carefully planned and not at all the work of reckless larrikin impulse, which, of course, makes it all the more difficult for tbe police to effect tbe apprehension and conviction of the perpetrator. Such an outrage *s this has not before occurred in Lawrence, and it is, therefore, to be hoped tbe police may suocetd in ridding the community of so danger.. ons a character.