ATTEMPTED BURGLARY
AT LIN WOOD RAILWAY STATION
An attempt was made some time between .four o’clock on Friday afternoon and seven o’clock on Saturday morning (says the Christchurch “Star”) to break open the safe at the Liu wood railway station. When the clerk in charge arrived at the station he found that the lock of the door of the booking office was jammed, and it was only .after some difficulty that he got it to respond to the -kov. On entering the office • the clerk soon discovered the reason for the door’s obstinacy, as the safe, which usually occupied a place under a small table set in a corner of the office, was lv iug face upwards in the middle of the room, a clear indication of some burglarious intruder or intruders during the night. Whoever the intruders were they wore evidently not of the professional cracksman type, as the implement used in the endeavour to effect an entrance into the safe was the office axe. The door of the safe was still intact. and showed little effect of the attempts to prize it open with the axe. Altogether it was a clumsy attempt at burglary.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1918, Page 3
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196ATTEMPTED BURGLARY Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1918, Page 3
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