Six Plugs to Blow Safe
AMATEURISH BURGLARY AT A RAILWAY STATION. THEFT OF ABOUT £3B Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 19. At 3.25 this morning a terrific explosion awakened the residents of Abbotsford. It was heard at Green Island, a mile away. At seven o’clock a railway clerk coming from Dunedin fround the Abbotsford station partially wrecked. The safe had been blown and about £3B was missing. The force of the explosion was such that it wrecked many of the ofiieo furnishings and lifted the roof several inches from the joists.
The gelignite used was obtained from the Jubilee coal mine at Fairfield, where two magazines wero rifled of 42 plugs and 90 detonators. It is assumed that the operations were those of rank amateurs, for six plugs were used on the safe.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7136, 20 April 1933, Page 8
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133Six Plugs to Blow Safe Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7136, 20 April 1933, Page 8
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