SAFEBREAKERS AT WORK

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 28 May 1912, Page 2

SAFEBREAKERS AT WORK

another burglary at auckLAND. By Telegraph—Press Association, _ Auckland, Monday. The long scries of burglaries which have gone on regularly *nd uninterruptedly for the past two months was added to oa Friday night or early on Saturday morning, when the safe of the Taupo Totara Company's office at Newmarket was neatly broken open, and about £lO in cash stolen. A nightwatchman is kept on the premises, "but i though he was about Ms duties as usual he hadi heard no untoward sound during the night, and no explosion appears to have reached the ears of the policeman doing duty in the main street of the suburb just handy to the office. When the clerks came to work at the usual hour they found the back door open, and the idoor of the safe was gaping, showing the books in the usual order, but three small cash-boxes beneath the book-stand were gone, and with them the amount of money mentioned. It is evident that the cracksmen are reducing to a line art the use of gelignite in its relation to the strength of the various sizes of safes that cross their clandestine* path. This safe had not been removed fTom its accustomed place, and there was no unnecessary shattering of door and locks. The explosive had neatly blown off a flange of the door, leaving tihe way open, while the books inside were practically undisturbed, a courtesy which is appreciated by the office staff. The presence near the safe of a roll of sheet brown paper suggests the means taken to reduce the sound of, the explosion. Though, the back door of the office .was loft open, it showed no sign of having been forced, and the deduction is that skeleton keys were used for the purpose of entry by the burglars.