Fiji Police Disinter
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Stolen Safe
Suva Feb. 16.
NO one outside of higher police cir cles (and they don’t talk) knows how it was done, but on February 9, the police discovered an office safe, stolen from Morris Hedstrom’s Nadi branch on January 14, buried in the Nadi River mud near the Nadi Bridge.
When trying to open the safe, the thieves had wrenched off the handle and front of the lock. After the police had forced the safe they found the original £392 inside —soaked but intact.
Next day three Indians were arrested and on February 11, Bikha Prasad, Ram Prasad and Lalaram, aged 25, 22 and ltB respectively, were sentenced at the Nadi Magistrate’s Court. The first two were gaoled for two years. Lalaram, owing to his youth, got *six months.