A RUSE THAT FAILED.
THIEVES USE A PYTHON,
Press Assn-i.ition—Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Tuesday, at 8.45 a.m.) BERLIN, Monday. Two Englishmen, reputed to possess jewels worth £20,000, wero staying at a Munich Hotel, when Russian and Norwegian thieves took an adjoining room and attempted to introduce a halfstarved python iv to the Englishmen's room, hoping to secure the jewels during the panic which would ensue. The thieves and the python were captured.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11883, 20 January 1914, Page 5
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71A RUSE THAT FAILED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11883, 20 January 1914, Page 5
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