Apparently unappalled by the enormity of their offence, William Callafcher (left) and Paul Francis, fifteen-year-old boy* who made the whole American nation laugh and "scared ten years' growth" but of. tke guardians of the U.S. Mint in San Francisco. They entered the impregnable, fortress-like building by the simple expedient of climbing a rain spout and opening a window "Just to see if we could do it."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 18
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66Apparently unappalled by the enormity of their offence, William Callafcher (left) and Paul Francis, fifteen-year-old boy* who made the whole American nation laugh and "scared ten years' growth" but of. tke guardians of the U.S. Mint in San Francisco. They entered the impregnable, fortress-like building by the simple expedient of climbing a rain spout and opening a window "Just to see if we could do it." Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 18
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