HIGHBROW THIEVES
LONDON, Sept. 11. Under cover of a. thick fog, thieves carried a heavy six-barred gate 100yds over churchyard walls, and used it as a ladder to break into the Priory Church at Cartntel, Lancashire. They removed a first edition of Edmund Spenser’s “Faerie Queen,” valued at £2OOO, but left other historic treasures.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 13
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54HIGHBROW THIEVES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 13
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