ATTEMPT TO WRECK CAR
Thieves Use Explosives (N.Z. Press Association) AXKMLAXY). May 9. Thieves used explosives ini a deliberate attempt to wreck] a stolen car in Freemans' Bay about 5.30 a.m. today. Police believe explosives—probably gelignite were either dropped into the petrol tank or laid in the boot above the tank and a fuse lit. The blast shattered the petrod tank and spread petrol over a wide area, but the petrod did not ignite. A hole was ripped in the lid of the boot. The car, a recent American model, was stolen from a street in Freeman’s Bay about 5 a.m., a quarter of an hour after its owner, Mr A. J. Ross, parked it there before driving a truck to Mercer for a load of shingle. A similar explosion wrecked another car, in Remuera in January of last year. This car had been stolen from its garage and was found damaged in another street not far away.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30127, 10 May 1963, Page 3
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