THEY LEFT THE SAFE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19601, 28 June 1926, Page 7

THEY LEFT THE SAFE

AUCKLAND’S BURGLARS BUSY . ESCAPADES IN STOLEN FIAT I EPIDEMIC REACHES A CLIMAX [Per Press AssoclatTon.J AUCKLAND, June M The epidemic of burglaries has surely reached its climax, no Jess than four < business premises being entered last night or early this morning. A baker’s shop and a butcher’s establishment in Dominion Road were broken into and (thefts committed. I That was not all. About midnight I two men broke open the garage of J. H. Luxford, solicitor, of Remuera, and I stole his Fiat motor car. This was used 4 I for the purposes of a most audacious fl 'nocturnal expedition. At 2.30 o’clock fl this morning, when a young man was lon his way to commence work in a New Lynn bakery, he heard a peculiar noise in the grocery store of G. K. Gilliam and Co., Great South Road. Became Suspicious. Tho youth returned to his home by and called his father, who gated. The parent approached the t and questioned two men, one of whom stated that the motor car which was ■ outside the shop had developed engine trouble. Becoming suspicious, the man [went to Gilliam’s house and acquainted him of what was going on. I The two returned to the shop, and lit was only then discovered that the Iront door of the shop had been forced .open. The safe, weighing 9cwt. had been removed from the store and was ' left out on the footpath. The two men in the meantime hail vanished, but they left behind the car which had been taken from Luxford’s garage. Evidently they intended to use this to take the safe away.