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The Preston Chronicle
Saturday January 15 1842
Burglary
During the night of Saturday, or early on Sunday morning last, the Sunday School attached to the Independent Chapel, Bethesda-street, Burnley, was entered by some person or persons, by cutting out part of a window-frame, which separates two pains of glass. They broke open the master's desk and two cupboards; and then proceeded to the Infants' School, which is under the same roof, but divided by a partition wall, and forced open the desks and cupboards; after which they went into the vestry, where they opened a cupboard, and drank part of a bottle of wine, (which, no doubt, served to stimulate their courage during the sacrilegious visit.) Finding no booty there, they next proceeded to the chapel, and searched the communion table drawer, but were equally unsuccessful. They then went to the pew of Reginald Hargreaves Esq., and opened a box which contained books, and emptied it on the floor, where they left its contents. They appeared to have left the school by a back door, which was found open by the pew opener in the morning; which circumstance first led him to suspect that an entrance had been effected. From the fact of nothing having been taken away, the object of the thief or thieves does not clearly appear, unless they expected to find money, or perhaps the silver plate belonging to the chapel: in both of which expectations, luckily, they were disappointed. From what we can learn, a robbery had been committed their some years ago, since which time the necessary precautions have been taken to secure all monies or valuables belonging to the chapel. -Blackburn Standard
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