I hope I do not upset too many by posting this:
<Quote>Dear old Pal
Received your letter to-day all right. Glad to hear from you so soon. So you are thinking of doing business and you have also got another room. Sorry you cannot get a job, but I suppose something will turn up before long. I hope the Mrs. is getting on good. Well, Bill, re stick of lollie and the way to use it: it is a thing you can use easy - you ask how much to use, well, Bill, a little will do the job alright, ¼ of a stick is quite sufficient to open the largest safe, about this much jelly. See that you get it in the hole all right: of fact the more you get in the better the result: of course lay it down on its hinges leaving the lock upwards so as when it receives the shock the bolts will drop and when you have stuffed the jelly in the hole get about an inch and a half of fuse cut it on the slant, the end that you put in the detonator like so [Here was an explanatory drawing]. Then square the top of the detonator on the fuse No. 2. No. 1 fuse if the detonator will not go in the hole put some jelly on the outside of the hole - stick detonator on it - hold together with clay, putty, soap or some sticky stuff. When this is done cover tank over with sacks, horse-covers, or any other rubbish you can collect about the place so as to deaden the sound. Then you are ready to light the fuse - it will only take the 1½ of fuse about 4 seconds to explode detonator. Then try the lock. If not successful repeat the dose again. Well, Bill, if you do the job, I hope you are successful: good luck to you and before you do it, can you depend on your accomplice - make sure he is staunch. Well, Bill, I hope you will excuse the pencil & bad writing and be sure to destroy this note at an early stage. Well, I think have said all at present hoping to hear from you again whenever you are successful or otherwise believe me your old pal. - C. B.
Detonator push fuse in square detonator around fuse bite with teeth will do but be sure and not squeeze bottom of cap. - Good luck, Billie. </Quote>
Billie decamped before blowing the safe running into the hands of the police. C.B. was convicted of being an accessory before the fact. He unsuccessfully appealed on the grounds that the prosecution had to show that he was aware of the specific job that Billie was going to undertake. The above letter was reproduced in the appeal judgement R v Baker (1909) 28 NZLR 536.