SAFE-BREAKING.
NORTH CANTERBURY EPIDEMIC. (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, September HAn epidemic of safe-breaking is at present being experienced in North Canterbury. A fourth safe was blown open over the week-end. It occurred at the store of Saundercock Bros., Ltd., at Springfield, last night. A charge of gelignite bIeAV off the lock and handle of the safe, but the thieves Averc tliAvarted in their intentions to rob tho safe by the jamming of the door. Entering from the hack of the premises, tho burglars forced throe. doors Avitli a crow-bar before gaining entrance to tho room containing the safe. Occupants of a house on the opposite side of the road from tho store heard a dull explosion during the night, and later the sound of a car being driven away. A baker arriving at the store in the early hours of the morning discovered that the building bad been broken into. The first sa fe-'brenking was reported at Mr C*. B. Bourne’s store at Woodend on August 31, and the second and third at the Softon railway station and post office on September 8.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 283, 12 September 1939, Page 3
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