SAFE BLOWER
PLEADS GUILTY AT DUNEDIN
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day
Robert Cockburn pleaded guilty in the Police Court to six charges of breaking and entering and was committed to Christchurch for sentence, where he will also appear on another similar charge. ' The accused, a coalminer, in a statement to the police said that he came from Greymouth on 27th November. He admitted breaking into the Caversham Post" Office, Soutji Dimedin Savings Bank, and other premises and using gelignite to blow tho safes. He said he had done all tho jobs lonehanded.
The police stated that a good deal of daiuage had been done to premises. From one safe tho accused took £26. In one case he climbed a slanting roof next door, then broke a pane of glass in tho skylight, and lowered himself into the office. He first blew the strongroom door and then blew two safes in tho strongroom.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 12
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153SAFE BLOWER Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 12
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