ALLEGED SAFE-BREAKING.
COCKBURN AGAIN IN COURT. CHRISTCHURCH. January 7. Pleading guilty before the magistrate this morning to six charges of breaking and entering and theft, Robert Cockburn, a miner, aged 23. of Greymouth, was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court. The police evidence was that the accused admitted breaking into many places by using gelignite with a detonator and wires. At one place he put in a charge, but failed to fire it. so left a warning note: “ Dangerous. Sorry works gone wrong. Better luck next time.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3957, 14 January 1930, Page 10
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