DARING BURGLARS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 22 January 1913, Page 5

DARING BURGLARS

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Arciiation—By 'Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

ATTEMPT A BIG HAUL. SAKE BR E A KIN G A Pl' 1A A N CES LEFT BEHIND. (.Received Last Night, 11.35 o'clock.) LONDON, January 21. gang of burglars spent the weekend in an unsuccessful attempt to force a safe containing £BO,OOO wortb of pearls in Rubin's (a jewel merchant) office in Molborn. •The gang were disturbed, and left t'GO worth of scientific safcbrcaking appliances, including twenty cylinders of oxygen and acetylene. IJubi'n owns some pearl fisheries in Western .Australia. Four of the burglars arrived in a van after six o'clock on Saturday, with half a ton of implements. They entered though some unoccupied offices, and erected a tent of American cloth round the wife, to prevent their light from showing. They blow-p'ipe<l the safe for at least three hours, but only succeeded] in making a hole four inches long by two inches wide. The hole had reached within three inches of a tray containing £'30,000, when the burglars wore disturbed, and hastily decamped, Thev would have required 'f, bore a second hole to secure, the other £50.000. The burglars left some pepper behind them, with which they had evidently intended to blind intruders. Four pairs of silent boots, indiarubber gloves, and acid drops for use when their months were parched with the blow-pipes, were also left behind.