BURGLARS BLUNDER
FORCED TO LEAVE DIAMONDS. Burglars who were careless enough to take the wrong size of rubber tubing with oxy-acetyleno cutting apparatus to the offices of London diamond merchants, spent a fruitless week-end in the building. The apparatus, which included oxyacetylene tools and gas cylinders, was left behind when the burglars departed. It could not have been used, because the lengths of rubber tubing were of too large a size to fit the nozzle of the cylinders. Some of the appliances left by the intruders were the most up to date which have over come into the hands of the police. The burglars managed to force a small safe with other tools, but the diamond safe had not been touched. The only thing taken was a copy of an old master, which had been cut from its frame. It is believed that the thieves used a motor car to carry the apparatus to the building, which is_ only about 200 yards from a police station.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21632, 30 April 1932, Page 20
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