POLICE SPREAD BIG NET
CATCH MAKES CROWD ROAR. Fifty police, drawn from uniform patrols, plain-clothes sections and the flying squad attached to a police station in North London, converged on a store at a street corner lately’. Hundreds of people gathered ami watched the cordon closing on the premises, for the rumour had spread that burglars were iu the store. A detachment of officers drew’ away’ from the ring and quietly entered the premises. The crowd prepared for dramatic events. Soon the party’ reappeared. Between stalwart policemen walked two little boys in while shirts and grey trousers. For a moment (ho crowd was dumb. Then there was a titter which grew to a roar of laughter. With grim faces the “troops” marched off and the child prisoners were taken tv the police station.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 178, 31 July 1933, Page 8
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133POLICE SPREAD BIG NET Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 178, 31 July 1933, Page 8
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