SAFE-ROBBERS FOILED

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1930, Page 5

SAFE-ROBBERS FOILED

FUSE FAILS TO EXPLODE.

[per press association.]

WELLINGTON. August 11.

Detonators and fuses were used by burglars in an unsuccessful attempt to blow open a safe at G. F. Browne’s furnishing warehouse. Courtenay Place. How entrance to the building was effected is a mystery. The safe contained about £4 in silver and ledger books. It was removed from the office, which is twenty feet from the front door, and taken to the rear of the whorehouse, ninety feet away. Marks showed that, determined efforts had been made to hacksaw the door of the safe, but without success. Next, a corner of the safe, about, two inches by one inch, was sawn off, which left an aperture large enough to insert a fuse and detonator. Something must have gone wrong, for the explosion did not take place, the fuse going out after merely scorching the inside of the safe. Further attempt to open the safe was abandoned.

THEATRE LOSES £126.

CHRISTCHURCH, August 11

Thieves on Saturday night, or early Sunday morning, entered the office of the Liberty Theatre in Cathedral Square, and stole £126, the takings for the day, from the safe, using the key that had been inadvertently left, on the desk.