SAFE BROKEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 3

SAFE BROKEN.

WAS NOT LOCKED.

GELIGNITE USED.

BURGLARS AT NEW LYNN,

. For the third time within the past two years burglars entered the office of the Xew Lynn Borough Council in the main street of the borough last night, or early this morning, and blew open the large safe in the town clerk's room with gelignite. _ Xo money was stolen, for the reason tnat there was none left in the safe. It wus decidedly inconsiderate of the cracksmen to shatter the safe door with a powerful charge of gelignite, lor the fate was not locked! The burglars entered by breaking a window in the side of the "council chamber. They left behind them an iron bar with which they smashed the window. The force of the explosion was so severe that pieces of the shattered safe door were blown through the walls of the town clerks room. ' The floor was littered with fragments of putty used to pack the charge in the keyhole* There is little doubt that the safe'breakers, as soon j,s they entered the building, started on the job of blowing the safe. Had they tried the handle they would have found that the safe was closed but not locked.

About 12 months ago safebreakers were more successful when they raided the same premises. They not only llew open the . strongroom door, but a safe within the strongroom, and stole £09.