SAFE LOCK BLOWN OFF
COULD NOT BE OPENED
BURGLARS IN DRAPERS SHOP
(Press Association) FEILDING, May 23
During the week-end the drapery shop of Messrs McGruer’s Limited, in Feilding., was entered by burglars, and an unsuccessful attempt was made to blow open the safe. This is the second similar burglary in Feilding, as the safe in Mtessrs J. Cobbe and Company’s drapery premises was recently unsuccessfully subjected to a charge of explosive. : The burglars gained an entrance to McGruer’s by means of a rear window. The lock of the safe was blown off by (explosive and tlio mechanism shattered. but the door could not be opened. A sum of money was removed from a Till in the shop, hut, it 'is believed that no stock was taken. The burglary apparently took place on Saturday night as a resident living near the shop 'informed the-'police that she heard a muffled (explosion, which she thought Was a motor tire blow out.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11952, 24 May 1933, Page 2
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