A DARING BURGLARY
BALCLUTHA BAILWAY STATION. DUNEDIN, April 18. Some time during last night the railway station at Balclutha was broken into by thieves and a safe opened. The burglary was of a particularly daring nature, as the thief first visited the residence of the stationmaster (Mr W. C. Cunliffe) in Lanark street, gaining entrance through the scullery window and then unlocking the kitchen door. He entered the bedroom where the stationmaster and his wife slept and searched through Mr Cunliffe’s trousers but failed to find the keys of the safe. The thief next visited the house of Mr N. Wilkinson a railway clerk, in Douglas street, where ho opened the window of a spare room and, entering Mr Wilkinson’s bedroom, secured the keys of the two station safes from the sleeper’s trousers, which had been left at the foot of the bed. At the railway station the front door was forced and a small safe opened, but the cash-box, containing the sum of £2 12/-, was left behind. So far as is known no cash was taken. The ticket cabinet was unlocked, but no tickets were removed.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 107, 19 April 1933, Page 5
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188A DARING BURGLARY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 107, 19 April 1933, Page 5
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