ATTEMPT ON SAFE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 4

ATTEMPT ON SAFE

MYSTERIOUS BURGLARY

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, May 13. Mysteriously entering a five-storeyed building in the legal area of the city during the weekend, and just as mysteriously, gaining entrance to a suite" of offices occupied by a firm of barristers and solicitors without leaving any traces showing how an entrance was effected, burglars were unsuccessful in blowing open a safe with gelignite. Everything in the building appeared to be in order this morning when the clerks arrived. The front door of the building was not damaged, while the solicitors' main office door on the first floor was securely locked. The only thing that aroused the suspicion 'of a junior clerk was that the padlock was not in its usual position on the strongroom door. It was found lying on the floor, -having been broken off. Opening the strongroom door, which the intruders had left closed, he^ discovered that the safe was lying on its side, the door being considerably damaged as a result of a charge of gelignite which had been exploded in the keyhole. The explosion shattered the door, which failed to open, and the services of a locksmith had to be obtained to remove it. '-■; The safe contained numerous docu-! ments, including debentures worth several thousand pounds, but no cash.