SAFES BLOWN OPEN.
FURNITURE FACTORY CRIME
LOUD EXPLOSIONS HEARD. (By Telejtrnph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Two loud reports awakened residents In the vicinity of the factory and shop of J. 0. Marshall, Limited, furniture and iipholetory manufacturers, Newtown, about 11.45 p.m. on Saturday, but it wa« not till about 10 o'clock yesterday morning that it was discovered that two safes in the firm's offices had boon blown open and between £8 and ilO stolen. A carpet and chairs were used to deaden the wound, but an overdose of explosive was employed and damage to the safe* and the office furniture was extensive. The handle of one «afe was lodged in a ceiling beam, (hairs in both offices were wrecked and carpets were ruined. The doors of both safes were blown completely off their hinges and twisted and crumpled like brown paper, while the safes were so damaged a« to be useless except for scrap metal. Strangely, Tiot a pane of glass was broken, though' both offices are largely constructed of glass. The damage is estimated at between £40 and £:>O.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 259, 1 November 1937, Page 8
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