Thie\ es Continue School Break-Ins Nottoway Safes Iiattered Open Burglars have struck at schools in this area again. The safe at *Burkevillr School was one of three m Nottoway county found ransacked. Friday morning. Thieves got on]' $10 to $15 from the Burkeville safe, John Farrar, principal said. Safes at Crewe and Blackstone schools were battered open. also. Several hundred dollars were taken from these two safes. The three break-ins followed by almost a month a similar night of school entries when schools in a four-county Central Virginia area were entered and their cash boxes rifled. Schools m Chesterfield. Powha tan. Cumberland, and Bucking ham counties were broken into. A total of $350 was taken from the four schools. An undetermined amount of property damage also resulted. A week before the December break ms. two high schools in Chester field county and a third in Pow hatan were entered. About $700 was taken from the three schools, all of which were entered on the same night.
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