DARING HOLD-UP
CARROTS FOR BULLETS. OFFENCES BY BOYS. *1 GA.BLI-PBXBB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHI Received July 9, 9.5 a.m. .. MELBOURNE, July, 9. Besides those cabled, three other dar. vng hold-ups occurred on Friday night" The police ascertained, that the revolyers used, were loaded with carrot, not with bullets. Amongst the belongings of the suspect thev discovered a carrot showing marks where the muzzles .of revolvers had been forced into the vegetable. • The police arrested five boys, who are alleged to have confessed to emulating the more mature robbers. They terrified a girl to surrender a. pound note, with which they bought toy revolvers. They then terrorised and robbed numbers of children, raided a State school and stole the scholars’ overcoats, and finished • by breaking into a letter-box and cheques worth £l4o.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 July 1924, Page 5
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130DARING HOLD-UP Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 July 1924, Page 5
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