Daring Robbery Of £5300 From Safe In Heart Of Melbourne
Recd. 11 p.m. Melbourne, June 30. Thieves who took £5300 from a city safe early this morning, first cut through a steel strongroom door 21 inches thick. Making a hole in the door two feet wide with an oxy-acetylene torch, thev then burned through the back of the safe and abstracted the weekly payroll for 800 employees. The money was in small denominations, and was in envelopes awaiting issue today. The robbery occurred in the Harbour Trust Building, Market Street, in the heart of the city, but not a sound was heard by watchmen. Two acetylene cylinders were left behind.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 1 July 1948, Page 5
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