MAGPIE SILVER THIEVES
There have been mysterious thefts of silverware in Sussex (England), and it is now believed that the thieves are the big, glossy magpies of the neighbourhood. Scarecrows and all other efforts to cheat them of their "swag" have failed. Ser-geant-Major Arthur Burt, the caretaker of the memorial at Patcham, near Brighton, to the Indian soldiers who fell in the war, told a "Daily Mail" reporter: "At first, the -magpies stole lumps of sugar, and then we found that spoons, and even sugar-tongs, were carried ofi. Where the birds hide the things I have no idea. We have never found any. The magpies like anything that shines. They are extremely cunning and wait until everything is clear before they make a raid."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 30
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124MAGPIE SILVER THIEVES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 30
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