BURGLARY IN COURT
THIEVES BLOW OPEN SAFE Although the police station was only about 60 yards distant, thieves broke into the building of the Courthouse and Lands Department at Seymour, Victoria, recently, and, carrying a steel safe from the clerk of Court’s office, blew it open with gelignite in the courtroom near the witness box.
The thieves entered the building by forcing a window. Every drawer in the clerk of Court’s office, and in the Lands Department’s .office was ransacked and papers were scattered in all directions.
“The thieves took my safe from my office,” said the clerk of Courts, Mr McGann, “and carried it into the Courtroom, where they blew it open with gelignite in a very professional manner. There was not much in the safe, however, and they only got away about £1 worth of stamps.” Residents heard a muffled explosion, out in the police station, which is not iar away, the noise was taken for the back-fire of the exhaust of a passing car Bot h the courthouse and the police station are on the main road.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19933, 18 October 1934, Page 7
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