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SAFE AND MONEY STOLEN THREE MEN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL (Per United Press Association) PALMERSTON N., June 17. Thomas John Lucinsky, Maurice Lucinsky and Edward Charles Young, three men charged with breaking and entering the counting house of J. L. Bennett, Ltd,, on May 26 and stealing therefrom a safe and contents valued at £446, were committed for trial. The evidence disclosed that the safe was discovered buried in sand at the roadside 18 miles from Palmerston North, the door having been prised open. The police produced two puncli bars which, they said, had been used to force open the safe These bars were discovered in a locked toolhouse where Young resided The money was dug up from the floor of Young’s fowlhouse Maurice Lucinsky took the police to a spot in a country road where cheques taken from the safe were found. One money bag was tied with the border of a handkerchief and later a handkerchief with one border missing of similar design was found in the pocket of a coat claimed by Tom Lucinsky. Bail was refused.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23529, 18 June 1938, Page 12
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