BOOTSHOP RAIDED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 31 December 1927, Page 4

BOOTSHOP RAIDED.

BUSINESSLIKE ME THUDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRLSTCHURCH, Friday. By removing two panes of glass and the wooden crosspiece between them from the back door, thieves entered the premises of J. B. Beggs, footwear dealer, 592 Colombo street, last night, and stole goods to the value of well over £2O. After trying the front door, on which there were marks of a jemmy, the thieves went round to the back of the shop, and, using the same instrument, removed the glass and entered through the hole they had made. Men’s boots and shoes, mostly of the best quality and of various sizes, were taken, the boxes out of which they came being neatly piled under the counter. The raid was evidently conducted in the most business-like manner, and, judging by the neat way they carried out their job, the thieves must have had plenty of time on their hands. “They stole enough shoe laces to keep them going for about six years,’’ said Mr Beggs. “I can’t toil yet how much they have stolen, but so far I have discovered well over £2O worth of goods gone.” Mr Beggs does not live on the premises, but the owner of the adjoining shop, who lives above, heard nothing suspicious.