RAILWAY SAFE OPENED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21470, 19 April 1933, Page 10

RAILWAY SAFE OPENED

USE OF STOLEN KEYS SUM OF MONEY UNTOUCHED [by tklegraph OWN" correspondent] DUNEDIN, Tuesday The Balclutha railway station was broken into last night, but the most unusual aspect of the whole affair was that, although the safe was opened with keys which had been stolen, a sum of jinoiiey which had been left in the safe was not touched. Apparently the intruder or intruders first entered the. house of the stationmaster, Mr. Cunliffe, and went into the bedroom tvliere Mr. Cunliffe was asleep and searched the pockets of his trousers for the office keys. The stationmaster, however, was not in possession of the keys. Tho house of Mr. Wilkinson, railway clerk, was then entered and the keys of the smaller of the two safes at the railway station were secured. The station was then entered, the front door being forced. The safe was opened, but nothing was taken, although there was about £l2 in money left there. THEFT FROM GROCERY SHOP ENTRY BY FORCING DOOR During the absence of the proprietress, Miss Eunice Riley, for the Easter holidays, a lock-up grocery shop at tho corner of New North Road and Blockhouse Bay Road, Avondale, was entered by thieves, who forced a door. The intruders stole a quantity of groceries and tinned foods, but secured no money, as no cash had been left on the premises.