HOTEL BURGLARY.
ACCESS GAINED TO SAFE. SUM OF £lO7 SECURED. •THIEF MISSES £63 IN NOTES.' [Br TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Friday. Cash and banknotes to the value of £lO7 were stolen irom a safe at the Post Office Hotel, Wellington, some time between midnight and 6.30 o'clock this morning. The indications are that the burglary was committed in a hurry and the thief failed to take a further £63 in banknote? which were lying in a steel drawer in the safe. In the opinion of the proprietor of the hotel, Mr. S. J. Whiteford, the thief was in the building before closing time at six o'clock last night,- when the front door was locked. Mr. Whiteford considers the thief secreted himself upstairs and lay in wait for a suitable opportunity to gain possession of the keys, which Mrs. \\ biteford kept under her pillow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 8
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143HOTEL BURGLARY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 8
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