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GELIGNITE FAILS TO FIRE WARNING NOTE LEFT "" Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. Today. Pleading guilty before a magistrate this morning to six charges of breaking. entering and theft. Robert Cockburn, a miner, aged 23. of Grey mouth, was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court. The police evidence was that the accused admitted breaking into many places, using gelignite with detonator and wires. At one place he put in a charge, but failed to fire it, so he left a warning: “Dangerous; sorry: works gone wrong. Better luck next time/’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 864, 7 January 1930, Page 11
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90IMPUDENT BURGLAR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 864, 7 January 1930, Page 11
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