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BURGLARS CAUGHT AT WORK IN WELLINGTON
TWO MEN APPREHENDED SURPRISED BY THE POLICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Caught by the police, on a summons by the nightwatchman, in C. Smith’s Ltd., Cuba Street, Samuel Jamieson McKee, aged 29. and Roy George Cudby, aged 37, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the premises and stealing" £52 19s 5d in money and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. They blew the strongroom door and two safes inside it and the money was found wrapped in a towel, while the men were being hunted down. In Cudby’s pocket was a tobacco pouch containing two small pieces of gelignite, a detonator and piece of fuse. He also had a small torch and was wearing white cotton gloves. McKee wore one leather glove and a man’s sock.
Entry apparently was made up the fire escape and through a grilled window, a bar of which was cut through with a hacksaw.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1940, Page 6
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162SAFE BLOWN OPEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1940, Page 6
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