AN OFFICER'S INGENUITY.
When the last mail left London the current story being told at Lloyd's' was ohat concerning the attempted pilferage of a number of alarm clocks at a Colonial port. Going into the hold, while the stevedores were at lunch, an officer noticed that a case of these clocks'had been opened, obviously in preparation to the pilfering of its contents. Ho was struck with the ingenious idea of winding up the top layer of clocks, and 'settins the alarms for-5 o'clock, at which time the stevedores knocked off for the day. As the men trooped off the ship a number of them were surprised to hear a, loud "B-r-r-r-r-r-r-r" proceeding from then- carefully tied lunch handkerchiefs, and were." perhaps, less surprised when they found themselves before the magistrates next day.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 24
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132AN OFFICER'S INGENUITY. Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 24
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