HERO PUNISHED
REMOVED A TIME-BOMB SAILOR FINED £3 AT 1 HOME A' sailor who removed* a 1001b time bomb from a house next to his and carried* it to a vacant lot was fined £3 "for removing and) tampering with a bomb dropped from an enemy aircraft." The sailor said he picked* up th ; e bomb, which! he could hear ticking, because relatives Ifived on the: same street and he wante)di to save them from injury. H© paid the fine but when he reached homel his wife told him the neighbours already! had collected more than enough money to pay for it.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 302, 7 May 1941, Page 2
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