SAFE BLOWN OPEN
SHOP IN CHRISTCHURCH SUM OF £7O STOLEN WORK OF SKILLED THIEVES [BY TELEGRAPH —PB.ESS ASSOCIATION*] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday Using a well-judged charge of explosive in the keyhole to shatter the look, skilled safebreakers opened the safe at the shop of Sharman and Sons, Limited, in Colombo Street, during the week-end and took about £7O in cash, including 401b. in weight in pennies. The theft was not discovered until the staff arrived at work this morning, when they found the back door of the premises open and the safe lying in the passage which runs fr<im the back door to the shop, the office opening into it. The cashbox was missing from the safe, but it was subsequently found upstairs, where the thieves opened it with a meat chopper found on the premises. There were no marks to show how the thieves entered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22987, 15 March 1938, Page 10
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