THEFT CHARGE
SAFE BURIED IN SAND
(Per Press Association —Copyright).
PALMERSTON N., June 17
Thomas John Lucinsky, Maurice Lucinsky, and Edward Charles Young, three men charged with breaking and entering the counting house of J. L. Bennett, Ltd., oil May 26, and stealing a- safe and contents valued at £446. were committed for trial. Evidence disclosed that the safe was discovered buried in sand, .by the roadside 18 miles from Palmerston North, the door having been prised open. The police produced two punch bars by which, they said, this was done. These bars were discovered in a locked tool bouse where Young lived. Money was dug up from the floor of Young’s fowlhouse. Maurice Lucinsky took the police to a spot on a-country road where cheques from the sate were found. One money bag was tied with a border of a haiulerchief, and later a handkerchief with one border missing, of a similar design was found in the pocket'of a coat claimed by Tom Lucinsky: Bail was refused.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1938, Page 5
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