SAFE-BREAKING
EPIDEMIC IN CANTERBURY By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. September 11. An epidemic of safe-breaking is at present being experienced in North Canterbury. A fourth safe was blown open over the week-end. It occurred at the store of Saundercock Brothers. Ltd., at Springfield, last night. A charge of gelignite blew off the lock and handle of the safe, but the thieves were thwarted in their intentions to rob the safe by the jamming of the door. Entering from the back of the premises, the burglars forced three doors with a crow-bar before gaining entrance to the room containing the safe. Occupants of a house on the opposite side of the road from the store heard a dull explosion during the night, and later the sound of a car being driven away. A baker, arriving at the store in the early hours of the morning, discovered that the building had been broken into. The first safe-breaking was reported at Mr C. B. Bourne’s store at Woodend on August 31, and the second and third at the Sefton Railway Station and Post Office on September 8.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21448, 12 September 1939, Page 4
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