Thieves Busy at Conisbrough

Conisbrough police were this week making enquiries into three thefts in the township. On Thursday, the XL crisps factory in Sheffield Road was broken into, on Saturday night the British Legion Club was entered and on Sunday afternoon a cigarette lighter and cigarettes were taken from a jacket pocket in the changing room at Conisbrough Welfare.

To gain entry into the XL Chris factory fees kicked a whole in the light compressed cardboard roofing of the managing director’s office and in the general office. Which packets containing nearly £60 were taken.

The company secretary Mr CM Wright explained that there was usually very little money kept on the premises but it so happened that at the time there were rather a larger number of employees than usual on holiday and their money was kept on the premises. The money was kept in a steel covered. This was forced open together with another steel covered and a desk drawer.

The seas were filed or by a burglar proof desk in which there was a small amount of petty The central drawer of the desk most people well out before the side draw can be open the thieves apparently did not know this.

At the British Legion Club in Brook Square, thieves got away with 2000 cigarettes and about 15 bottles of spirits, approximately £40 in value. It is not known how the thieves entered the clubroom on the second floor of the premises. When the steward, who lives off the premises came to the club on Sunday morning everything appeared to be in order. Two windows had been left unlatched but were still closed on Sunday morning, two windows were barred and quite secure and another had been bolted the previous night, but somehow the thieves entered the bar.

A cigarette lighter, of little monetary value but of great sentimental value was stolen from the jacket pocket of Mr Walsh of Tickhill Square Denaby when he left his jacket in the changing room at Conisborough Welfare Hall while supervising a youth club football match on the Welfare ground. Mr Walsh, the leader of Tom Hill Youth Club was presented with the lighter by German friends when he visited Seigen, Westphalia last year. He took a party from the Youth Club to Seigen and was presented with the lighter as a parting gift. It was inscribed with the coat of arms of Seigen and is of great sentimental value and he appeals to the thief to return the like.

Also taken from the pocket was a packet of cigarettes.