CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
THEFT FROM CLOTHES-LINE. A would-be clothes-line thief received a shock in a suburban hack garden in Dunedin last week. The housewife, hearing a step go round the house, and not desiring to be "at home" to itinerant vendors of miscellaneous wares, did not respond to his knocks, but took up what turned out to be a highly strategical position behind the window curtains. Having apparently decided that no one was at home, and not wishing to depart empty-handed, the visitor stepped across the lawn to the clothes-line and coolly removed an article of apparel, which he placed in his pocket. This was too much for the housewife, who opened the window and demanded not only the return of the article but its replacement on the line. The request was meekly complied with, arid it was a very abashed young man who made a hasty exit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21037, 23 November 1931, Page 12
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CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21037, 23 November 1931, Page 12
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