ATTACK ON SAFE
ROBBERS' SMALL RETURN [l*XB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH. August 13. An attempt was made to open the strongroom of the Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Society, New Plymouth, during the jveek-end. The lock was shattered with gelignite, but the explosion jambed the door so tight that a day s work with an oxy-acetylene cutter was required to open it. Thieves secured only £1 in cash from a drawer, but may have taken groceries from the store. Entrance ■was gained to the cellar through a window, and a double locked door was broken open, to the main floor, where the strong room is situated. It is believed that two charges were used and a neighbour remembers hearing two muffled explosions on Sunday afternoon.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1935, Page 5
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