COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE
SAFE-BREAKERS BEFORE COURT A DANGEROUS OPERATION. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 16. That safe-breaking with gelignite may be an operation of some danger was proved by the experience of three young men who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to a series of charges of breaking and entering and theft. The most serious charge was that of blowing open a safe in the office of W. W. Keighley and Co. Detective Sergeant O’Brien, for the prosecution, said that by all accounts one of the accused was lucky to be alive, as he stayed in the room when the charge was fired, and too heavy a charge was used. In s statement made by one of the men it was stated that when the charge was about to be fired one man left the building, and the other stayed in the room. When the safe was blown up the door flew across the room over the man’s head. The two accused were Ronald Patrick Baxter, aged 21, and William Lewis Philp, aged 18, both described as labourers. They were committed for sentence. The other accused was a juvenile aged 17.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21981, 16 June 1933, Page 10
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194COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21981, 16 June 1933, Page 10
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