DETONATORS IN SAFE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21553, 26 July 1933, Page 6

DETONATORS IN SAFE

THIEVES LEAVE WARNING FRUITLESS ATTACK ON DOOR . ' ' ''Danger. Detonators not exploded." Tftis warning was left b.y thieves who unsuccessfully attempted to break open a safe on tho premises of a firm in Melbourne early one morning recently, jjjr*' When the son of one of tho proprietors If/ opened the office door on commencing fe. work shortly before seven o'clock in |g; the morning ho found a cloud of smoke |n the room and many bags piled round tho safe. U Apparently tho thieves, after enteral infi' the store by cutting a piece of corI? rugated iron from tho rear wall, were p unablo to open the office door because it was barred on tho inside. The.v re- .... nypved several panels of wood from the wall of the office and entered b.y regit moving tho bar from tho door. The Ip'.iirfyvcs then inserted several detonators Ik; in the keyhole of tho safe so that the.v into the cavity inside tho lock, but IK:the, explosion did not break tho lock |jg sufficiently to allow tho safe to bo opened. #>'•l Apparently believing that all the do- , i;' tonators had not exploded, the thieves the warning notice. It was found. WMhowever, that all tho detonators had U' ' Only Is 6d in small coins was it- * ««len from the office.