Curious Attempts to Steal Documents not Valuable The office of Mr. G. A. Bena, No. 44 Szechuen Road, was broken into on Sunday afternoon, an entrance being gained by the filing through of an iron bar to which the lock of the office door was attached. The visitor would seem to have been particularly interested in such documents as the desks might be found to contain, no attention apparently being given to other things in the office. Nothing of value was carried away by the visitor, who retired unobserved after having made a search of the desks.
The point of interest about the matter which is under investigation by the police, is that the motive does not seem to be of the variety which usually inspires the office breaker, and moreover, there have been other and somewhat similar cases in which the search has been not for valuables,' but for documents. In one case, an important document bearing on'2 case prominently before the public was removed from the safe in an attorney's office.
It is a singular coincidence that, recently, the office of a prominent Ttalian lawyer was visited and an attempt made te open his safe with a duplicate key. The attempt failed, and the fact of the visit wes not discovered until it was found that tampering with the lock had rendered the proper key ineffective Jin opening the safe.
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