The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY IN PRICES-STREET.

"Messrs. Milner and Son,
"Gentlemen,—l am glad to inform you that the Safe I pur-
chased from you eight years ago, defeated the most violent
efforts of some thieves who obtained access to my premises last
night. They had cut a large hole in the outer plate, and tried
to force off the lock, or to force open the door, with a powerful
"jemmy" (which they left behind them,) but without success,
as we found the Cash and Books " safe" this morning. Please
send me another, the same size, of your improved make.

"DAVID M4CLELLAN.
Price-street, Lirerpo )1, May 26th, 1851."
Note.—The Safe alluded to above was one of our weakest and
lightest make—strong plate-iron tinned,—improved upon many
years ago.—T. M. and S.

ANOTHER TRIUMPH OF MILNER'S "HOLDFAST"
~•• SAFES.
BURGLARY AT OLDHAM.
"Middle Level Drainage, Contractor's Office,
March (Cambridgeshire), 21st October, 1830.
"Sir,—My premises, in Oldham, were broken into on the
night of Wednesday last, and strong, but I am glad to say
unsuccessful efforts made to get at the c,,ntents of the Milner 's
" Holdfast" Safe you supplied me with some two years ago. I
am glad to be able to bear this testimony to their value. You
are quite at liberty to make what use you think proper of this.
"I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
"HENRY EVANS.

"Mr. Davies, Agent for Milner's Safes
" 28, Market-street. Manchester."

NOTE —We supplied Mr. Evans with the above No. 3 Hold.
fast for Oldham, and a No. 6 Holdfast, and two Chests, for
March, in Jannary, 1548. P. R. D.
THOMAS MILNER and SON have great pleasure in publishing
the above so immediately after the following:—
TO BULLION DEALERS, BANKERS, AND ALL HOLDERS
OF CASH, PLATE, AND VALUABLE PROPERTY.
ExtraordiTary and Successful Resistance to Robbers.

11IILNERS'S "HOLDFAST

AND FIRE•RESISTING SAFE,

the Strongest Safeguard against Robbery,;;,lii;;,

Early last year, Messrs. Wm. Watson and Co., (late Watson
Brothers) applied to Thos. Milner and Son toconstruct for them
one of their strong Holdfast Safes or Chests, to contain 10.000
dollars in silver, for its safe conveyance over the mountains
from the mines to Tempico. The gentleman writing for the
Safe was at the time lying confined to his bed, from a bullet
and two bayonet wounds he had received in an attack of the
Mexican robbers on a valuable convoy, in which the Safe he
then used was broken up, and plundered of a large amount of
specie. The Safe and Waggon constructed for it were exhi-
bited at our works, and to several Liverpool houses, and met
with peat approval from several of our engineers and practical
men, and doubtless will be in the recollection of the public;
and we have great pleasure in announcing that we have re-
ceived the following polite and unsolicited note from Mr. Wat-
son, who has since given us permission to publish it :
" Liverpool, Derby-bmidings, 20th Sept., 1850.
" Mr. Watson presents his compliments to Mr. Milner, and
has to commun►cate to him the following extract of a letter,
dated the 11th ultimo, from his partner at Tampico:—
`The iron waggon ann safe lex Josephine), with sixty bars of
silver, was attacked by forty-rocbers between Catore and San
Luis Potosi, and they worked twelve hours le open the chest,
and they did not succeed; meantime assistance came from San
Luia Potosi.'

'This is very satisfactory, and does you credit, and will, no
doubt, lead to further orders.' "
The whole of the outside of this safe was half-inch wrought
iron, proof against sledge-hammers, chisels, or any other
violence, and well it did its duty.

Merchant in London—to which we invite the of the
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their class in the world, employing more experienced workmen
(upwards of 100, assisted by the most approved and powerful
machinery), than all the Safemakers in England together—a
Lancashire Workshop well
. worth looking over. Its whole
operations—from the cutting up and working of the Wrought
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chant's eit
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iron Plates and Bars, from the tickness of :half-a-crown to that
of its diameter, to the buildine up of these superb and massive
Safes—the filling of their chambers with the Fire-resisting
Materials—the arrangement of their powerful Hinges, Bolts,
and impregnable Locks—altogether are well worthy the study
of the mechanic and the man of science.
The Fre-resisting reputation of hlilner's Safes is founded
upon experiments of scientific mer., and facts; by the former
their superiority to others bas been proved; and something
better than the merely negative fame of never having beep
tried is elicited from the following among hundreds of in-
stances :

Fires at Blackaller's ship chandle stores, Liverpool; at
Messrs. J. and W. Walker's, builders, ry
Birkenhead; at Messrs.
Garniss and Co.'s, outfitters, Liverpooi ' • at Plimsaul Brothers,
chandlvy stores, Plymouth; at S. and R. and Thos. Brown
Queen-street, Glasgow • at Ker, Doering, and Co.'s, Glasgow;
at Charles Boyd and Sons, Clyde-street, Glasgow; at Mr. Thos.
Haigh's, the great Fire in Market-street, Manchester, &c.
MILNER'S Holdfast and Fire-resisting Safes, Chests, and
Boxes, suitable for all classes of Buildings, Impregnable Locks
and Cash Boxes at the Works, 50A and 54, Lord-street, and 47
to 57, Cable-street, Liverpool, and London Depot, 47A, Meer.
gate-street, London.