STRANGE ROBBERY
THEFT OF CHEMICALS MONEY LEFT IN SAFE London's strangest robbery was recently investigated by the police. It occurred at the premises of the Associated Drug and Chemical Company, and although a considerable sum of money was in the office safe, all the thieves took were 13 drums of magnesium chloride and calcium chloride, each weighing about 6-Jowt. People living near by heard a lorry driven up to the works during Thursday night, and the thieves left behind the skids used for lifting the drums on to the lorry.
" From the length of the skids we know that, at least four men would be required to lift each drum," said Mr. F. \Y. Fitzgerald, the works manager. " The value of the chloride was about .L'3s, and it can be put to hundreds of uses. It is the most widely used chemical. The magnesium is used for the production of dry batteries, and like the other clorjde—calcium—is used extensively for medical -purposes. " I assume the thieves found a market for the goods first then carried out the robbery. We produce the chemical and know practically every purchaser of it."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21769, 7 April 1934, Page 9 (Supplement)
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189STRANGE ROBBERY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21769, 7 April 1934, Page 9 (Supplement)
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