EXPLOSION AT GARAGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 7

EXPLOSION AT GARAGE

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES SYDNEY, March 18. Following the disastrous explosion at th© garage occupied by the Blue Bus Transit Co., Penshurst, early yesterday morning, the police detained David Moyes, 32, mechanic. He was subsequently charged with arson. The explosion lifted . the roof and wrecked one of the walls of the building, and the majority off the eight buses parked there were destroyed. The suspicions / of the firemen were aroused by discovering a rubber hose connected-with the petrol tank of a bus frcm which the spirit had flowed all over the concrete floor. A second startling discovery was that the metal .-can protecting th 4 underground well, in which a thousand gallons ot oetrol was stored, had been removed. When further examination of the premises was made by police and firemen it was discovered that the leather bags of the bus conductors, which'shoidd have contained a large sum of money, were partly burnt, but no cash was. found in them or among the debris. This Jed the police, to believe that the bags had been rifled prior to the start of tK£ fife- The total damage is estimated at £lo*ooo.