DARING ROBBERY IN SYDNEY MAIL ROOM
SYDNEY, June 4
More than 140 registered packets and letters were stolen from the General Post Office in the centre of the city by a thief working alone. The thief ransacked hundreds of pigeonholes of city businesses and then left a trail of torn envelopes and wrappings along Martin Place and George Street to Wynyard Station. It will probably be a week before the value of the contents of the missing packages is established. Apparently the thief walked into the section containing the delivery counters and thousands of private boxes shortly before closing time. He withdrew eight screws and a metal fitting and removed a pane of glass approximately three feet square, climbed through the aperture and ripped off a lock fastening a roller shutter covering about 200 pigeonholes. —^
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 5 June 1948, Page 5
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135DARING ROBBERY IN SYDNEY MAIL ROOM Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 5 June 1948, Page 5
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