THIEVES' BIG HAUL
£200,000 IN CASH CHICAGO SENSATION SAFETY DEPOSITS RAIDED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 5, 7.5 p.m.) CHICAGO. Sept. 4 One of the most sensational and lucrative crimes of recent years was committed at Chicago yesterday afternoon. A group of expert safe-openers tunnelled into the real estate offices of Messrs. Koch and Company, entered it a.nd escaped with £200,000. The thieves held two families in the adjoining houso prisoners for more than 14 hours on the pretext that they wero officers of tho law. After they entered the next house they casually used acetylene torches and other equipment and bored through the walls to the vault room in the office. The thieves used the company's index as a guide and systematically looted about 350 safety-deposit boxes, taking only casn and leaving securities and jewellery, which they threw carelessly about. Owing to the number of bank failures some time ago residents in the vicinity had utilised the boxes for keeping their cash.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21280, 6 September 1932, Page 9
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