ANOTHER DARING BURGLARY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1273, 27 May 1912, Page 5

ANOTHER DARING BURGLARY.

SAFE BLOWN OPEN WITH GELIG

NITE

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, this day. The long series of burglaries which have gone on regularly and uninterrupt- , ed for the: past • two months, was. added to' on Friday -night, or early on Saturday morning, when the safe of the Taupo Totara Company's office, at Newmarket, was neatly burgled, and about £10 m cash stolen. A night watchman is kept on the premises, but though he was about his duties as usual he had heard no untoward sound during the night, and no explosion appears to have reached the ears of the policeman doing duty m the main street of the suburb just handy to the 'office. When the clerks came to work at the usual hour; they found the back door open, and the door of the safe was gaping open, showing the books m their usual order, but three small cash boxes beneath the bookstand w.ere ; gone, . and with them the amount of money mentioned. It is evident that cracksmen are reducing to a -fine art the use-, of gelignite m its .relation to the strength of various sizes 'of safes that cross their clandestine path, for this safe had not been removed from its accustomed place, and there was ho unneces r sary shattering of doors and Jocks. The explosive had neatly blown off the flange of the door, leaving the way open, while the books inside were practically undisturbed. The presence near the safe of a roll of sheets of brown paper suggests the means taken to reduce the sound of the explosion. Though the back door, of the office was left open it ( showed no sign of having been forced, and the deduction is that skeleton keys were used for the purpose of entry by the burglars.