AUDACIOUS BURGLARY
AUCKLAND COMPANY ROBBED
ONLY £5 IN SAFE
(For Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, this day
An audacious burglarly was carried out last night in the Laundry Company's premises in Sussex street. Burglars levered a sliding door off its rails to gain an entrance and then carried ,a small safe from the office and down a flight of six steps into the factory. They ■could have been seen by any passer-by through a glass window. They removed the safe to the factory floor, using a truck for the purpose, and then carried it down into the electric, fuse room, which lias a concrete floor. There they burst it open with explosive, removed the money it contained, and departed through the back door. While in flic office they ransacked every drawer and strewed the contents 'on the floor.
The safe contained only petty cash about £5 in all.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19340503.2.86
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18387, 3 May 1934, Page 6
Word Count
146AUDACIOUS BURGLARY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18387, 3 May 1934, Page 6
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in