SENSATIONAL THEFT
MILLION DOLLARS CHICAGO BANDITS’ BIG HAUL (United Press Association—By Electric: Telegraph—Copyright.) CHICAGO, September 5. One of the most sensational and most lucrative , crimes of recent years is recorded here. A group of safe-’ openers tunnelled into the real estate offices of Koch and Company, .from which they escaped with one million dollars, after holding two families, in an adjoining house, prisoners over 14 hours on Saturday afternoon, on the pretext that they w ere officers.
The robbers entered the adjoining house. Then they casually brought in acetylene torches and other equipment. They bored through the walls to the vault room office. There, using the Company’s index as their guide, they system at icaffly looted some 350 safety deposit boxes, taking only the cash, and ignoring he securities. The jewellery was thrown carelessly about. Owing to the number of bank failures isdniq time ago, the ~l’esidents iti the vicinity have utilised these boxes in Which to keep their cash*i’
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19320906.2.45
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1932, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
160SENSATIONAL THEFT Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1932, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. 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 the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in