JOKE OR PLOT?
HEDGES HOLD UP
(Sydney Sun Cables.) (Received January 17, noon) LONDON, January 16.
‘‘.lt is either a practical joke, prompted by my lectures or an expertly planned plot to get possession of certain documents,” said Mr. Mitchell Hedges in an interview with a Weekly Despatch reporter regarding his hold up. “L cannot explain the nature of the documents, but thev wore of almost international importance and worth everything to me as 'they concerned exploration work, which is my life’s hobby. They would be very valuable to others, who would be glad merely to destroy them.” Mr. Hedges added that he had received threatening anonymous letters as the result of his attacks on milksops, knock-kneed adventureless, Charlstoning youths, one stating that unless ho ceased these attacks he would bo got, at.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16242, 17 January 1927, Page 6
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