RED HANDS AND EARS FOR PICKPOCKETS
RUMANIA’S NEW PENALTY POLICE THREAT TO USE PAINT PROTECTION DEMANDED BY THIEVES United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received September 21, 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, September 21. The Bucharest correspondent of “The Daily Telegraph” says: “Alarmed at the police decision to paint their hands and ears an ineradicable red, in order to check increasing pocketpicking, Rumanian pickpockets held two protest meetings, demanding protection against an "unconstitutional” measure.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20839, 22 September 1937, Page 7
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71RED HANDS AND EARS FOR PICKPOCKETS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20839, 22 September 1937, Page 7
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