A Tight Place.
An ingenious mechanio in Birmingham constructed a safe, which ho stated to be absolutely burglar-proof. To oonvince the incredulous of the fact, he placed a one thousand pound note in hia pocket, had himself locked in the safe, and declared that he would give the money to tho man who unfastened the door. All the blacksmiths, carpenters, and burglars in the country have been boring, and blasting, and beating at that safe for a week with every kind of tool and explosive mixture known to science, and the man is there yet I Ho has whispered through the key-hola that ho will make the reward ten thousand pounds if somebody will only let him out. He has convinced everybody that it is the safest safe ever invented. Fears are entertained that the whole concern will have to be melted down in a blaet-furnaoe before he is released, and ellorts are to be made to pass in through the keyhole a fire-proof jacket to protect the inventor whilo the iron is melting.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2003, 9 May 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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174A Tight Place. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2003, 9 May 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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