BRISBANE EXPLOSION.
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BELIEVED DELIBERATELY CAUSED. ATTEMPT TO DESTROY EVIDENCE BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.45 a.m. to-day. BRISBANE, Aug. 15. It is now believed that the explosion which wrecked the Criminal Investigation Department office in Elizabeth Street on Saturday night was the resuit of an attempt to destroy evidence in a robbery case upon which the detectives had been working for weeks past It is believed that a bomb or similar explosive was .thrown through a. window of the room where the stolen goods were kept. A small fire started, but was quickly suppressed. No explosives were stored in the premises. Many records were destroyed, but these were mostly old and of little value.
The windows in the buildings nearby were shattered, and the explosion was heard for miles around. A city detective. Mr. Burns, who was sleeping on the premises, was sent to hospital suffering from severe: shock.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 August 1927, Page 9
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151BRISBANE EXPLOSION. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 August 1927, Page 9
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