Intruder at Denaby

Police are investigating a theft of confectionery from H. H. Law’s grocers, Doncaster Road, Denaby Main. The intruder entered the premises, a one storey hut, by ripping boards off the side of the building.

When Mrs R. Hooley of Annerley Street, Denaby, who manages the shop, went to open it she found the premises ransacked and chocolates and sweets strewn about the floor. She also found a printed note which had been left on the weight scales and which read, ” Thank you—I had to do it.”

A jar of confectionery had been taken from the shelf and left on the counter. Police took charge of both the note and the jar.

So far as Mrs Hooley could tell, all that was stolen were bars of chocolate and chewing gum. She said it was the third time the premises had been broken into in the last three months. The last time, a ham was stolen.

An intruder also tried to gain entry into the confectionery shop of Mrs H. Cass another wooden building on Doncaster Road, Denaby on the same night. Mrs Cass (63) a widow, told a reporter that the woodwork at the back of the shop had been extensively damaged.