THIEVES FOILED
SAFE REMAINS INTACT LARGE SUM UNTOUCHED (Par Pre m \i«ociation.) WHAKATANE, Nov. 4. A deliberate attempt to blow open the safe at the railway station at Taneatua occurred sometime during the night. In the safe was £2700, railway men’s wages, but the would-be thieves were unsuccessful in obtaining the loot. They had used too much gelignite, which tended to keep the safe locked rather than to force it open. They effected an entrance to the station building by means of a window. Although it was knocked about a good deal. The safe was quite intact when tho discovery was made this morning. The police are making investigations and a detective has arrived from Gisborne.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19271105.2.58
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19990, 5 November 1927, Page 7
Word Count
116THIEVES FOILED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19990, 5 November 1927, Page 7
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in