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ROOF DRILLED.

STRONGROOM RAID.

MAN WITH SEVEN CHILDREN. THEFT ATTEMPT ADMITTED. POUND "WITH OUTFIT OP TOOLS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Admitting a charge that he had attempted to steal £379, the property of the Christchurch Tramway Board, on January 17, by drilling through the reinforced concrete roof of the storeroom, Robert James Foote, aged 42, a labourer, was to-day committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. In a statement to the police Foote said he was a widower with seven children. He had not been able to get sufficient food for them, and this led him to commit the crime. The police showed that Foote was found on the ceiling of the tram depot with an outfit of tools. An employee heard a peculiar knocking sound, and on investigating found Foote, who was captured after a chase. He had formerly worked for the board. The concrete in the roof had been broken away for a space Ift long and Oin deep. There was £379 in the strongroom. The police exhibits included an imposing array of tools from an iron standard to a cold chisel.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1932, Page 3

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ROOF DRILLED. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1932, Page 3

ROOF DRILLED. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1932, Page 3