FOUR SAFES ATTACKED

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1929, Page 6

FOUR SAFES ATTACKED

CRACKSMEN’S PERSISTENCE. Persistent eafe-breakers who forced an entrance into a Sydney factory one night recently were only prevented from robbing their third safe for that night by some noise outside the building. One of the windows at the rear of the premises was ineffectively fastened, and the thieves had little trouble in gaining an entrance. They made their way to the office, where they found three safes. They must have spent an unhappy five minutes wondering which one contained the most money, and then apparently they decided to try the lot. They attacked the first one with a jemmy. It yielded after the door was badly broken, and the thieves triumphantly removed a few shillings. The next safe they treated the same way, and when the door fell off they found them-

selves with a total haul of j£3. [v,. With renewed vigour the .intrudera attacked the third safe. The: jemmy proved ineffective, and they ,jh® keyhole with a charge of. L Then cam© the noise them. They fled and probably . spent, .1 night in regretful thoughts.p^ v tiha ; huge sums that third safe might, have contained. .< ' It is considered likely that jth© sam aanrr w as responsible for an ; attack on a safe at a foundry later in the .morning. They forced an entrance through tne back door, removed the office e . an attempted to blow it open. T e » tempt failed, and before they could make a second effort the nightwatchman disturbed them.