Thieves take $12,000 in safe
Detectives believe that whoever stole a safe containing almost $12,000 from a Hornby service station early yesterday had "cased” the premises in a previous burglary.
Carmen Road Auto Services, Ltd, had been broken into two week-ends ago and a hole smashed through the wall from a toilet to the office. Nothing was taken. Between 6 p.m. on Sunday and 7 a.m. yesterday, the office was . entered through the unrepaired hole, in the wall and the heavy safe carted away with’ a sack barrow.
The safe contained takings of $11,982, about a third of it in cheques. “We had the locks changed after the first burglary. They got in through the window this time, but the. hole was still in the toilet wall,” said the manager of the service station, Mr Bernie Norton. The hole is now blocked. Detective Bob Kerr said that the one-metre-square, old-style safe was extremely heavy. The disconnected burglar alarm from the service station was found more than a kilometre away on a front lawn.
Detective Kerr appealed for anyone who might have seen a vehicle or any suspicious .activity near the garage on Monday night to get in touch with the Hornby C. 1.8. '■
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