FALSE TELEPHONE MESSAGE
STIR AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS
SILLY HOAX AT AUCKLAND
[United Press Association]
AUCKLAND, 20th June.
An urgent but false telephone message to police headquarters to-night saying that a young woman had been stabbed and lay seriously wounded in a building in Customs Street East gave a squad of detectives a great de;J of trouble. A general inquiry had to be made at the hospitals in case the information was correct, but the message was proved a hoax. The voice of a middle-aged man gave the alarm and police officers were immediately driven to the building. No agitated informant was there to greet them, and they made a systematic search of each of the four floors in the building. Within two or three minutes small knots of bystanders had gathered at various points of vantage, and by the time the police returned to the car about 100 people were looking on. No one in the building or any of the bystanders had heard of the supposed stabbing, and the police returned to their headquarters, where a further thorough round of inquiries was made before the hunt was abandoned.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 21 June 1937, Page 6
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189FALSE TELEPHONE MESSAGE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 21 June 1937, Page 6
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