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Blew Himself Vp (N.Z. Press AAsn.—CopvriQht ’ SYDNEY, April 3. Detectives believe a Sydney criminal was setting a booby trap in a stolen car with gelignite when he blew himself up yesterday. The man, Grahame Leslie Moffitt, aged 30, was blown up in the car while trying to manipulate some wiring attached. to the gelignite, they sa'. But the plot rebounded on him when he tried to turn on the car lights in a darkened garage so that he could sec to I our petrol into the tank. When he turned on the car lights switch he detonated the bomb.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31027, 5 April 1966, Page 14
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