BURGLAR DISTURBED
(Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) H A.Mi ETON, Wednesday. Tlie premises ol George Boyes, et>laio agent, were out ( red by a. burglar last night. Boves, on entering the'front door, board someone jumping through the back window. Invest igal ing the matter bo tound that fin attempt bad boon inado to blow up (lie safe. The handle had been blown io pieces ;md the locl< wa? embedded in the wall. A fuse was on the lloor. The crime was particularly daring one. It wat< only nine o'clock in the evening, and the safe was just inside the window in the busiest part of the main street. The police ihiuk that the burglary was the work oi an amateur.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 7 February 1918, Page 7
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117BURGLAR DISTURBED Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 7 February 1918, Page 7
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