SAFE BLOWN OPEN
NARROW ESCAPE THREE MEN BEFORE COURT. (Per Press Association—Copyright). CHRISTCHURCH, June 14. That safe breaking with gelignite may be an operation of some danger was proved by the experience of three young men who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to a series of charges of breaking,, entering ar.d theft. Tlie most serious charge was that of blowing open a safe in the office of W. W. Keiglily and Co. Detetcive Sergeant O’Brien, for the prosecution, said that by all accounts one of the accused was lucky to be alive, as he stayed, in the room when the charge was fired, and a too heavy charge was used, stated the Detective. 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 had blown up the door flew across the room, over the man’s head. The two accused were Ronald Patrick Baxter, aged 21, and William Lewis Pholp, aged 18. Both were described as labourers. They were committed for sentence. The other accused was a juvenile aged 17,
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1933, Page 5
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