SPITEFUL THIEVES.
WANTON DESTRUCTION. SUM OF MONEY MISSED. Thieves who recently entered two shops at Toronto, near Newcastle, New South JVVales, and also the office of the Toronto railway station, having failed to secure any considerable amount of money, took a spiteful way of expressing their chagrin. Bags of sugar standing in one of the chops were slashed with knives, groceries .were dragged from the shelves and thrown about and all (he eggs in the shop were smashed into tho sugar. At the railway station the intruders cut some suitcases open and scattered tho contents about tho office. After making a supper at one of the shops from pickles, biscuits, cheese and tinned fruit, they left an insulting pote, signed "Thunderbolt." A comical feature of the happenings was that while tho thieves were at the railway station, £8 or £9 was lying in a locked drawer besido them and was not discovered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 20
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152SPITEFUL THIEVES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 20
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