ARMED BURGLARS.
AN ELECTRIC ALARM SCARES THEM. (7 V/' /Vr.« Awri<itii)ti. —( '"/ii/ri'/ht.) Melbourne, Nov. 23. Early this morning three masked and armed burglars entered the Tramway Company's sheds, Richmond, and bound and gagged the only two men working on the premises. They then began to open the door of the safe, in which was several hundred pounds. The door was fitted with an electric alarm, which started ringing and the burglars decamped.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 179, 24 November 1896, Page 2
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72ARMED BURGLARS. Hastings Standard, Issue 179, 24 November 1896, Page 2
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