MYSTERY OF A SAFE.
(Continued from page 5.) [ Deputy-Superintendent Wilson, when seen on the subject, stated that bo was :in charge of the pnrty of firemen which penetrated the building. The safe was in the corridor when be first saw it, and could not have been brought out by any of the firemen, for the room to which it belonged was at that time filled with 20 tons of burning tlrbris. The deputysupprintendent saw one of the firemen chopping at the safe with an axe, and asked him what he was doing. The ■man's reply was that smoke -was issuing from the safe, and he til-ought that it might be possible to rescue valuables that might be aifire inside. Tliere was, added Mr Wilson, steam coming from the safe. How the safe ultimately came to be found by the owner in another part of the building be was at a loss to understand. He last saw it in the corridor of the third floor.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 1 April 1913, Page 7
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