BUTCHER'S SAFE TAKEN
A COOL ROBBERY. Electric Telegraph—Press Association TE AWAMUTU, February 18 A Phillips safe, measuring about 3ft by 2ft and containing Saturday’s takings, was removed from the premises of J. Middlebrook, butcher, during the week-end,, it is believed sometime, after 1 a.m. on Sunday. Entrance was effected by the back door and the safe taken away on a. hand truck to a back street where it was loaded to a motor truck. The premises are right opposite, the Te Awamutu Hotel and the post office adjoins. Telephone attendants who, have a view of Middlebrook’s office saw nothing. The, police scoured the district yesterday without finding any trace of the safe.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11071, 19 February 1929, Page 7
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112BUTCHER'S SAFE TAKEN Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11071, 19 February 1929, Page 7
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