HEAVY SAFE STOLEN
j BRUNTWOOD STORE ENTERED | THIEVES FORCE MAIN DOORS | FROM Ol'B OWN CORRESPONDENT] HAMILTON. Monday By sliding it out ol the front door on sacks to deaden the sound and then lifting it on to a motor vehicle, thieves made off with a three-hundredweight safe from the Brunt wood General Store, near Cambridge, last night. lhe | safe contained cash and cheques' valued at about L'2o. together with all the office Itooks belonging to the store. Kntr.v was gained hv the intruders by | forcing the lock of the main front | doors of the shop, after attempts to enter by side doors had failed. The burglary took place between one i and five o'clock this morning. Th# | manager of the »t>>re. 'Mr R- "«• Ward shut ui> shop.about 10 o clock i last night but did not retire until 1 j a.ni to his house at the rear of t e i shop He rose again at 5 a.m. sn I was in the shop b\ six to find Ito front doors open and the safe gone. Apart from a small quantity of ohacco nothing else in the store »»» removed . , This is the swtu.il sale hu.glarv that | has talen nla<e h. re- ! "enti> th. s„ie in the ihw»»• l>'» - | I'ooin. Victoria Stiwt Haiml being torced o|>e». '»>• use < plosives ou December o and | stolen. 1 ■ >VV"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22917, 21 December 1937, Page 12
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