SYDNEY SAFE ATTACKED.
ROBBERS LEAVE EMPTY-HANDED. Sydney, May '9.
Burglars blew open the safe at Tattersail's Club last night. The safe contained a large sum in bookmakers' Saturday winnings. -.{■ ■ ".'---.■.* -'.'-'rV:., ■-.
The explosion aroused tthe inmates of the building, and > the robbers escaped without •' their booty. ~ " " •*'" * , (Received May 20, 12.15 a.m.)..".'. ■ * ■'; ■'••.;: Sydney, May 19. •It r : transpires that the charge used \by the -burglars was insufficient to open the door of the safe at TattersalPs Club, • but it smashed the woodwork surrounding the safe and damaged the furniture. ' The robbers opened the cash register, but there was nothing inside it, < and so they \ solaced themselves with meat, bottles of whisky, and cigars. ;;'^. v , '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15306, 20 May 1913, Page 7
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