SAFE BURIED IN SAND
POLICE DISCOVERY BY ROADSIDE THREE MEN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL (rasas association teleqeam.) PALMERSTON NORTH, June 17. Thomas John Lucinsky, Maurice Lucinsky, and Edward Charles Young, three men charged with breaking and
entering the counting house of J. L. Bennett, Ltd., on May 26, and steaUng a safe and contents valued at £448, were committed for trial. Evidence disclosed that the safe was discovered buried in sand by the roadside, 18 miles from Palmerston North, the door having been prised open. The police produced two punch bars by which, they said, this was done. These bars were discovered in
a locked toolhouse where Young lived. Money was dug up from the floor of Young’s fowlhouse. Maurice Lucinsky took the police to a spot on a country road where cheques from the safe were found. One money bag Was tied with a border of a handkerchief, and later a handkerchief with one border missing, of a similar design, was found in the pocket of a coat claimed by Tom Lucinsky. Bail was refused.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22431, 18 June 1938, Page 4
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