One of the reports of underground activities that go on undetected by neighbors sounds like an ideal spot to hide a body or a captive
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POLICE HAUL UNDER HOUSE
By chief police report CYRIL AYRIS
DETECTIVES Investigating alleged *advertiser censored* offences yesterday discovered two cellars and connecting tunnels under a house they raided.
The subterranean system was found by chance when one of the detectives moved a floor safe in
the lounge-room.
The safe slip silently back under the floor, revealing a shaft.
The detectives climbed down into a timber lined room nearly two metres high by about here metres square.
A tunnel led from the room to another cavern farther under the house.
The chief of the DIB, Lee Walker, said that a quantity of graphic negatives of children aged from 10 to 17 had been seized.
The two cellars were dug under a $130,000 house in a quiet suburban street.
They were found after the CIB team, led by Det. Sgt. Jack Gage of the vice squad resumed their search for pornographic negatives.
An exhaustive search of several houses on Wednesday had resulted in the seizure of photographs but no negatives were found.
The police ripped up carpets in one house revealing the safe set into timber floor boards.
Carpets
The safe was opened but it was only when one of the detectives fiddled with mechanism that it slid out of view on rails under the floor.
When the searchers peered into the hole they saw a flight of timber steps leading down into the cellars.
When they climbed down the steps they discovered that the rooms had electric lights and there was ducting to carry fresh air into the area.
Sand from the excavations is believed to fill depressions in the back yard.