RAILWAY BURGLARY

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1926, Page 6

RAILWAY BURGLARY

REMTTERA STATION ENTERED

GELIGNITE USED ON SAFE.

A burglar entered the booking office of the Remuera railway station early on Saturday morning, and, after blowing off the door of the safe with a charge of gelignite, removed the drawers and their contents —cheques and cash totalling £40. of which £18 was in cash. The cheques, on which payment was at once stopped, were from timl>er companies, and the cash consisted mainly of wages for surfac-emen and petty cas-h. The safe drawers were found under the bridge about 50yds from the station. The explosion was heard by two residents in houses at the rear of the station at about two o'clock-in the morning, but at the time they attributed the sound to the noise caused by the puncture of a motor tyre. From the damage done it is evident that the charge used must have been a- big one. The station i≤ comparatively isolated, having lines on both sides, and was deserted from 10 o'clock on Friday evening until six o'clock the folio wins" morning. Mr. Frank Golland. the porter who came on duty on Saturday morning, found the two lower panes of the booking office window broken. The window had been pushed up, and had become jammed a= a result of the explosion. A window at the back of the station was also found to have had two panes smashed.