A THIEF OUTWIHED.
■ ; j _ . ♦ , ; ■ . / FOWL FANCIER'S BARGAIN. N (Special to Herald.) . ; ;: - '—:■ " DUNE&IN, this 'day;. A good story 4s going round concerning a fowl fancier, a bicycle, and a thief , and it. is vouched for 'as- having \ taken place ■within 100 miles of Dunedxn. The fail-, cie.r T fixed up a secret alarm, which notified him, m the; dead of night thafT somebody "was about. He walked to the front, saw a- bicycle there ,• and wheeled ,{t' m. ."_ !theit he. repaired to the back, and was juet too late to catch a man who got aw k ay; with two birds, so as the outcome of the night's events the fancier lost, say, 40s worth of poultry, and found a bicycle he valued at something .between / £10 and £15.- - '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11141, 3 December 1907, Page 5
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128A THIEF OUTWIHED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11141, 3 December 1907, Page 5
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