CALM CROOKS.
A £IO,OOO COUP.
LOWERING A SAFI
NEW YORK. Nov. 17.—Lust night thieves, believed to be members of a gang who 'recently had a battle with the police, broke into the sixth floor office in a big city block. Try as they would they could not. open the door of a big portable safe. Explosives were too risky in such a thickly populated area, so they rushed up block and tackle, and calmly lowered the safe to a motor truck in the street.
The thing was done so openly that passers-by thought everything was above board. The- risk was worth while. The thieves got clean away, and the sale contained over £19,0(10.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16895, 27 November 1925, Page 8
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