YOUNG DESPERADOES
BOYS WITH TOY GUNS. ROBBERIES IN MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, July 9. Besides those cabled, three other daring hold-ups occurred on Friday night. The police have ascertained that the revolvers used were loaded with carrot, not with bullets. Amongst the belongings of a suspect they discovered a carrot showing marks where the muzzle of revolvers had been forced into the vegetable. The police have arrested five boys who are alleged to have confessed emulating maturer robbers. They terrified a girl to surrender a pound note, w-ith which they bought toy revolvers. They then terrorised and robbed numbers of children, and raided a State school and the State scholars’ overcoats, and finished by breaking into a letter box, stealing cheques worth £l4O.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19058, 10 July 1924, Page 11
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121YOUNG DESPERADOES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19058, 10 July 1924, Page 11
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