SCHOOLBOY BANDIT
HOLD-UP WITH TOMMY-GUN SYDNEY. April 5. Armed with a sub-machine gun, a 15-year-old schoolboy, held up a motorist in Ash field suburb, Sydney, and ordered him from the vehicle. The youngster then tried lo start the car but, failing to do so. ran away. The motorist drove to the _ nearest police station and returned with two officers in a police car. They found the youth walking along carrying the submachine gun under his arm. He had stolen it, together with a military hat and a greatcoat from school.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21990, 6 April 1946, Page 3
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90SCHOOLBOY BANDIT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21990, 6 April 1946, Page 3
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