THIEVES BLOW OPEN SAFE DOOR
£255 IN CASH STOLEN (P.A.) DUNEDIN, August 23. Using explosives to open the safe in the grocery business of Mr L. A. Jelley in Cromwell. Central Otago, thieves obtained £255 in cash. They forced their way into the shop between noon on Sunday and 3 a.m. to-day. Not all the money belonged to the shop. Ac a member of the Vincent Rugby Sub-union Committee, Mr Jelley ~had offered to place in his safe £B4 collected at a tournament and dance held by the sub-union at Croihwell on Saturday. The thieves entered l. building by an office window at the back. They placed explosives against the safe door and covered it with earth, sacks and small packages of seeds, confining the explosion to the safe. A glass door leading from the office was not even cracked by the explosion.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25581, 24 August 1948, Page 3
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