FALSE MESSAGE
AUCKLAND POLICE HOAXED SUPPOSED STABBING OF WOMAN [ Par I'resa Auaclatlon ] AUCKLAND, June 20. An urgent but false telephone message to police headquarters to-night saying that a young woman had been stabbed and lay seriously wounded in a building in Customs Street East gave a squad of detectives a great deal of trouble. A general inquiry had to be made at hospitals in case the information was correct, but the message was proved a hocx. A voice of a middle-aged man gave the alarm and police officers were immediately driven to the building. No agitated informant was there to greet them and they made a systematic search of each of the four floors in the building. Within two or three minutes small knots of bystanders had gathered at various points of vantage, and by the time the police returned to the car about 100 people were looking on. No one in the building or any of the bystanders had heard of the supposed stabbing, and the police returned to their headquarters, where a further thorough round of inquiries was made before the hunt was Abandoned.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 146, 22 June 1937, Page 8
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186FALSE MESSAGE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 146, 22 June 1937, Page 8
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