THIEVES CAUGHT IN A RAILWAY VAN.
[BT TKLEfiRAni. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
Invkrcargill, Saturday. Two firemen on the s.s. Rakaia visited a hotel at the Bluff at noon yesterday and appropriated two bags belonging to a commercial traveller. They went across the street to the railway station, got into a van on a siding and comnienoixl to ransack the bags. They had been noticed by two residents, who, suspecting that all was not right, slipped quietly over and each closed a door of the van. 'There were earnest adjurations from the captured men to be let out, but that was not permitted tiff' the police arrived and locked them up.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12819, 20 March 1905, Page 5
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