TRAIN BOMB HOAX
Youth Admits Making Call (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 12. Passengers on the Auck-land-Wellington Limited express on September 26 were held up for half an hour while police searched the train for a bomb, after receiving an anonymous telephone call, Detective-Sergeant J. Sheehan told Mr J. R. Drummond, S.M., today. Two of the passengers re fused to travel, even when nothing was found. Before the Court was 18-year-old entertainer, Larry Maurice Sturdy, who admitted making a fictitious tele phone call to the police. He was convicted and remanded to November 23 for sentence. Detective Sergeant Sheehan said Sturdy was in a group which went to see a train passenger off. One of the group suggested that the train could be delayed, and Sturdy, for no apparent reason, offered to make the telephone call. When the police arrived, he realised his prank had gone too far, but was dissuaded from confessing by a suggestion that he might “get away with it, if he kept quiet.” The Magistrate: This must be the first time one of these hoax kings has been caught. Detective-Sergeant Sheehan: Yes, for quite some time.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30907, 13 November 1965, Page 27
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190TRAIN BOMB HOAX Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30907, 13 November 1965, Page 27
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