STILL ALIVE
THE GELIGNITE FOOTBALLER. AUCKLAND THINKS HARD. (By Telegraph—Special to "Star.") AUCKLAND, November 17. The story about a man who found {relignito ready capped on the railway ine just a minute before tho arrival of the Main Trunk express and kicked it aside with his foot is not generally credited. The detectives who are making inquiries have as yet nothing to say about their feeling as to the genuineness or otherwise of tho story of tho find, but it has been pointed out that detonators aro unnecessarj for tho explosion of gelignite chat is ground under the weight of a passing train. It is also remarked that tho man who kicked, a. properly capped gelignite charge and told the story next day, after sleeping over-night on it, possesses a great deal more luck than falls to the lot of tho ordinary mortal.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10927, 17 November 1913, Page 4
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143STILL ALIVE Star (Christchurch), Issue 10927, 17 November 1913, Page 4
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