SAFES BLOWN OPEN
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO OFFICE FURNITURE (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 1. Two loud reports awakened residents in the vicinity of the factory and shop of J. G. Marshall Ltd., furniture and upholstery manufacturers, Newtown, about 11.45 p.m. on Saturday, but it was not till about ten o’clock yesterday morning that it was discovered two safes in the firm’s offices had been blown open and between £8 and £lO stolen. A carpet and chairs were used to deaden the sound, but an overdose of explosive was employed and the damage to the safes and office furniture was extensive. The handle of one safe was lodged in the ceiling beams, chairs from both offices were wrecked and the carpets ruined. The doors on both safes were blown completely off the hinges and twisted and crumpled like brown paper, and the safes so bulged as to be useless except for scrap metal. Strangely not a pane of glass was broken, though both offices are largely constructed of glass. The damage is estimated at between £4O and £5O.
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Southland Times, Issue 23346, 2 November 1937, Page 9
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177SAFES BLOWN OPEN Southland Times, Issue 23346, 2 November 1937, Page 9
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