TRAMPLED ON JEWELS
THIEVES OVERSIGHT
MELBOURNE, done 1. Sai'dblowers at the works of the Goldfields Diamond Drilling Company, Proprietary, Limited in Start street, South .Melbourne, early to-day trampled on J3BCO worth of diamonds and sapphires realising the fact. The diamonds and sapphires are used by the company as point* in their drilling machines, and no trouble, was taken hv the iirm to conceal them.
'They were scattered about among debris* on the iloor, aridi must have been walked over many times as the safebreakers prepared the fuses and other apparatus which they used to force the two safes in the office, . They were apparently after money, but there was none in the safes. However, the company has missed two bags of diamonds valued! at £2'so from one of the safes, and the thieves did damage amounting to £SCO. They also visited the office of the Sim Paving Company next- door, and for the second time within, a week blew open the safe there. They got £8 in. cash.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19044, 18 June 1936, Page 12
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