BOY SCOUTS HOAXED.
“ESCAPED CONVICT” JOKE. * Boy scouts in camp recently, at Tonbridge, Kent, received a Visit from a
disreputable-looking individual who, after being given food, slunk aWay. Half-an-hour later three men visited the camp and_ told the scoutmaster they were looking for an escaped convict. whose description tallied with that of the recent visitor. The scouts set out to track him, and in a short time returned to camp with the wanted man securely bjund. Cyclists were sent for the police, but before they arrived the “convict” and the three men owned up. The scoutmaster and hi s troop had been victims of a practical joke
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 November 1924, Page 10
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