BURGLARY IN WELLINGTON.
SAFE BLOWN OPEN. WELLINGTON, this. day. The premises of Perkins’ Furnishing Co., in an old skating rink, in Vivian Streelf, were visited by burglars on Friday night and thesafe dynamited, but the haul only amounted to three or four pounds. The job was evidently done by experienced cracksmen, the safe door being blown right ofi. Felt packing was put round rthe safe to doaden the sound, but the neighbours’ heard a mufiled explosion. It is belicved the robbers entered the building‘ h-.*t‘ore closing time on Friday, and secreted themselves, as there was no sign of a forced entry. The building is" large and full of furni-ture, so prcvenifed ‘ho diffieultjies’ }to {anyone stowing away. “ '
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3338, 17 November 1919, Page 5
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117BURGLARY IN WELLINGTON. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3338, 17 November 1919, Page 5
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