A BURGLARY
ATTEMPT TO OPEN SAFE.
\By Telegraph—Press Association),
WELLINGTON, August 11
Detonators and fuses were used by burglars in an unsuccessful attempt to blow open the safe of G. F. Browne’s furnishing warehouse, Courtenay Place.
How entrance to the building was effected i s a mystery, The safe contained about £4 in silver and ledger books. It was removed from the office which is twenty feet from the front door, and taken to the rear of the warehcu.se ninety feet away. Marks showed that- determined efforts were made to hacksaw the door off the safe without success. Next a corner of tlie safe, about two inches by one inch, was sawn off, which left a.n aperture large enough to insert a fuse and detonator. Something must have gone wrong, for the explosion did not take place, the fuse going out after merely scorching the inside of the safe. A further attempt to open the safe was abandoned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1930, Page 5
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158A BURGLARY Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1930, Page 5
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