SLEPT IN A COFFIN.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z Cable Association BRISBANE. April 19. A man has been sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment for stealing a coffin. When arrested he was drunk, staggering along the street with a coffin on his shoulder. He declared that he purchased and slept in the coffin the previous night, and was then taking it to the river to use as a boat.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16405, 20 April 1921, Page 5
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