DANGER IN SAFE BREAKING
DOOR PLIES OVER MAN’S HEAD,
TRIO ADMIT OFFENCES.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, June 15,
That safe breaking with gelignite may he an operation of some danger was proved by tlie experience of three young men who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-dav to a series of charges of . breaking and entering and theft. The most serious charge was that of blowing open the safe in the office of IV. W. Keighley and Co. Detective-Sergeant O’Brien- for the prosecution said that by all accounts one of the accused-was lucky to be alive as lie stayed in- the room when the charge was fired and too heavy a charge was used. In a statement- made by one of the men it was stated that when the charge was about to be fired one man left the building and the other stayed in the room. When the safe was blown up the door flew across the room over the man’s head.
Two of the accused were Ranald Patrick Baxter, aged 21, and William. Lewis Philp, aged 18, both described as labourers. They were committed for sentence. The' other accused was a juvenile aged 17.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 16 June 1933, Page 4
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196DANGER IN SAFE BREAKING Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 16 June 1933, Page 4
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