VESTRY SAFE BLOWN OPEN
BURGLARS DISTURBED; LEAVE VALUABLES BEHIND [Special to “Northern Aa,vocate.”l AUCKLAND, This Day. Hearing a sound like a gun being fired, Canon Fancourt rushed from the vicarage- into St. Mary’s Cathedral Church at 2 o’clock this morning, and, with the aid of a torch, found the vestry filled with smoke. Burglars had blown open the safe, but were apparently scared by Canon Fancourt’s entry and disappeared. The safe was blown open with gelignite, but the contents, consisting of cash totalling £SO, also gold and silver chalices, were untouched.Detectives, in response to a tele-
phone call, were promptly on the scene. Cassocks • and surplices b-. longing to the choir had been used c deaden the sound.
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Northern Advocate, 30 November 1936, Page 5
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