YOUTHS ENTER ARMY BASE
Ammunition Stolen
(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, April 4. Police said today that three 15-year-old youths had beaten the entire security system of Fort Wodsworth to invade the Army installation and steal ammunition for use in rocket experiments. The base, situated on Staten Island off the southern tip of Manhattan, is headquarters for the air defence of the New York metropolitan area. Police said the boys, whose names were withheld, had slipped into the fort and gone to a bunker after timing the movements of a motorised patfol to assure it would be elsewhere. They had prised off a lock to reach the ammunition, removed 3000 rounds of small calibre bullets and two boxes of detonators, replaced the and decamped. . Police said the plot was so clever that they had discovered it only by chance. When investigating the accidental wounding of a boy who discharged a bullet With a rock, they had learned that the ammunition came' from the three youths and had rounded them up. They will appear in the Children s Court tomorrow.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28553, 5 April 1958, Page 4
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