BOOKSHOP BROKEN INTO
£ls IN MONEY AND CHEQUES STOLEN Illy Telegraph—l'reiw Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Burglars broke into the bookshop of Mr O. A. Seymour. Cleveland street, Brooklyn, early on Saturday morning, blew open Ids safe and stole £45 in money and cheques. Gelignite was apparently used in blowing the safe. People next door heard the explosion about 1.20 a.m., but put the noise down to a banging gate or a bursting motor-car tyre. THEFT FROM HOTEL DUNEDIN. 13th November. The sum of £5 14s in cash and half a dozen bottles of whisky were stolen from the private bar of Tattersall’s Hotel in Stafford street, on Friday night. The thieves, after entering the hotel, used a stcpladder to reach the fanlight above the door leading from the main passage to the private bar. Their exit was made by unlocking the door from the inside. So far no arrest has been made.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 15 November 1937, Page 6
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