SNATCHED SENTRY'S REVOLVER
BOY SHOOTS HIMSELF DEAD Press Association—By Telegraph—-Copyright (Rec. 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 5. A 14-year-old boy snatched a revolver from an R.A.A.F. sentry's holster, put the revolver to his head, and shot himself dead. The sentry, with his holster strapped to his side was on duty in a sentry box at an R.A.A.F. aerodrome. The boy had been in the habrE of ■ playing about the aerodrome on holidays. Yesterday he and another boy were sitting in the sentry box, when the boy suddenly snatched the sentry's revolver, placed the muzzle over liis right ear. and pulled the trig--Be - ■ '■■■ ' '
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Evening Star, Issue 25425, 5 March 1945, Page 6
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101SNATCHED SENTRY'S REVOLVER Evening Star, Issue 25425, 5 March 1945, Page 6
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