BOYS STEAL RAILWAY
WHOLE FOUR MILES OF IT BELGRADE, April 2. Twelve peasant lads from the village of Osijek have just been brought before a Croat magistrate on the unusual charge of stealing a railway. Between Osijek and Zirostinji there ran a narrow-gauge railway four miles in length on which there were only two trains a day. When the railway policeman at Zirostinji, whose duty it is to patrol the line, took up hi.s task one morning recently he was astounded to find that his railway had disappeared down to the last bolt and iho last sleeper. When the police brought the 12 lads before the magistrate they told him that their exploit was a boyish prank. The magistrate held, however, that the lads had outgrown the model railway stage, more especially as it was proved that they had tried to dispose of the plunder as scrap iron. He sent them for trial.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 10
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153BOYS STEAL RAILWAY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 10
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