DARING ROBBERY

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1932, Page 6

DARING ROBBERY

SAFE TAKEN AWAY. A BIG HAUL. (By Telegraph —Per Fre as Association) WELLINGTON, January 4. A daring burglary involving the i«inoval of it 3 cwt safe containing £l6O worth of gold and silver medals and nearly £SO in cash and about- £IOO m cheques, also deeds, titles, account books and Post Office Savings Bank books, was committed on the premises of John Moran, general draper, Vivian Street, on Friday evening. The safe, roughly battered open, was discovered on Saturday morning near the Massey Memorial at Point Halswell, where it had been dumped into the harbour from the roadway. The safe was salvaged by the police, but all that remained Ever© account books, some deeds and titles and a couple of cheques. it is believed the burglars entered the shop through a rear window'. The safe was placed on a carpet and dragged out through the hack door and lifted on to a motor vehicle. The stolen medals numbered about fifty and were, with few exceptions solid geld and had been won as prizes in dancing competitions by Moran’s married daughter, Airs E. J. Miller ol Carterton. Their intrinsic value is not l ess than £l6O, but a greater sentimental value is placed upon them hv the owner.