WHAT AN ALARM CLOCK DID.
theft and comedy., A Paris thief who had purloined * number. o£ things recently from a house the Batignollcs district was stealthily defending the oact staircase with a bulky • ; packet,.anxious to get-away as quickly a#" : possible, when to his consternation : aii Hp alarm clock he had appropriated set op a horrible, noised m ->&Z The thief, frightened nearly ockof his ~ wits, bounded down the.' few remain-. || ing flights as fast as bis legs would carry him -out, into the street,' ihi concierge. His flight, however, wis short, for by the time his breathless pursuer bad covered a hundred yards. or ; so-the thief was safely, ju the clutches .policeiaaßU „* . ■ . * -' i! 1 • £ ~ + / f' . \* - - J'--'"-/
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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116WHAT AN ALARM CLOCK DID. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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