FOLDING LADDER
A BURGLAR’S TOOL. Believed by police to have carried a folding ladder, in its kit, a gang of shopbreakers entered Woolworth’s shop at Rockdale (says the Sydney Sun). Goods worth £4O were stolen. Detectives investigating the robbery are amazed at the thieves’ audacity, and they believe they comprise one of the several gangs of “cat burglars” who have been operating in the city and suburbs during recent weeks. On April 21 shopbreakers entered the Hurstville branch of Woolworths, in Forest-road, by sawing through the steel bars of a window at the rear and forcing the windowcatch. They were apparently disturbed, for Detectives Truman and Hollingworth found a number of burglars’ tools in the shop. Yesterday the gang broke into the' branch store in Prince’s Highway, Rockdale, and made a careful selection of goods, which they evidently packed in bags and removed in a motor car.
Police found Iliat the thieves had forced tlleir way in through a window 18ft. from the ground. The only way they could have readied it was by climbing a ladder, and the fact that none was found leads the police to believe that the gang carries a folding ladder to reach high windows.
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3471, 26 May 1934, Page 5
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200FOLDING LADDER Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3471, 26 May 1934, Page 5
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