DARING BURGLARY.
SAFE BLOWN UP AT WANGANUI (By Telegraph—Prets Auociation.) WANGANUI, Last Night. A daring burglary took placo Jicre last night, when the butcher's shop of Senior and Bennett was entered, and the safe blown open. The burglars had prepared a pit in the yard, for the repose of the safe, weighing about four hundredweight, but the efforts to remove it were given up and instead earth was carried into the shop to deaden the sound of the explosion. •People were sleeping in houses only a few yards away. The burglars' haul included £35 in cash, and £3B in chetjues, but they left £ll odd in cash among the debris.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 November 1913, Page 3
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110DARING BURGLARY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 November 1913, Page 3
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