CHRISTCHURCH BURGLARIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2323, 16 October 1908, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH BURGLARIES.

FRESH DEVELOPMENTS.

[Pbess Association.]

CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 15. Further devlopmenis have occurred in connection with the recent arrests by Detectives Jas. Kennedy and Fade of two men on. a number of burglary charges on the Islington district. It is stated that a few weeks ago a resident in the" neighborhood of Christchurch paid a holiday visit to Sydney, and when ho came hack found that nearly all the furniture in hi s house bad been removed, lock, stock, and barrel. This modus operandi is described by the detectives as “a regular American dodge,” and it is the first time a burglary of this nature has occurred in tho Canterbury district. It is alleged that t-lie men were on a recent night seen at. Islington carrying a chest of drawers (from which Ihe drawers had been extracted) on a couple- of -poles slung on straps attached to their shoulders, and that as soon as they wore observed they hurriedly decamped, leaving the empty chest of drawers on the roadside. * It is thought that most of the furniture has been burned, but a number of household effects, including curtains, were found in the house occupied by one of the men 'before-mentioned. As a sequel they will have to answer an extra charge of theft in addition to those charges which have already been preferred against them.