BLACKMAILERS CAUGHT.
’PLANES TRACK 'PIGEON
BERLIN, July 21. “£lO by the bird or your house will be set ou fire.” This was the message attached to the leg of a carrier pigeon enclosed in a box hanging to the front of the residence of Mrs Holie, wife of a leading factory owner in Bochun, 25 miles north-east of Dusseldo’ii. The p slice had a brilliant idea of using an aeroplane to track home the bird, to which a streamer was affixed in order to facilitate identification. The aeroplanes executed hair-raising manoeuvres as the bird circled and dived, seeking its bearing. The bird finally was aerially photographed entering a loft. An aeroplane dropped a plan to the police, who caught two men in the act of unfastening the streamer. _ They denied that the bird was theirs, so it was released twice, but each time it returned to the loft, whereupon the blackmailers confessed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 197, 22 July 1931, Page 7
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152BLACKMAILERS CAUGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 197, 22 July 1931, Page 7
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