AUDACIOUS BURGLARY.
——o LEVIN HOT/EL ENTERED. SAFE REMOVED AND CONTENTS RIFLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) LEVIN, Monday. An audacious burglary was committed at the Levin Hotel on Sunday morning. The burglars removed a safe from the hotel, and took it several hundred yards down the road where they blew it open with dynamite. They left about fifty pounls' worth of cheques to blow about, but took away a substantial sum in coin and ia bank notes. It is understood that the police have recovered most of the stolen property. Three men have been arrested at Koputaroa (four miles from Levin), and will be charged at the Levin Stipendiary Magistrate 3 Court to-day, with committing the burglary. Later. John Earnshaw, Henry Robert Hunt, and Leslie Ellis, aged respectively twenty-one, twenty-five and twenty-six, were charged this morning with burglarious entry of the Levin HoteJ and theft of money and jewellery valued at £IOO. Accused were remanded for eight days in custody.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10074, 23 August 1910, Page 5
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158AUDACIOUS BURGLARY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10074, 23 August 1910, Page 5
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