Sting In The Tail
A 15-year-old boy arrested on a shoplifting charge did not, said Detective O. K. Robinson, read the comic strip long enough. The bOy, never in trouble before, was accused of stuffing a cashmere sweater into a box fitted with a trap door, like one used by a character in a newspaper comic. "You read that strip, don't you?" asked the detective. "Yeah." "Did you get the idea from it?" "Yeah." "Well, you didn't read last night's strip, did you?" The boy shook his head. In that last strip, the character who shoplifted with the trap door box pleaded guilty to larceny.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 15, 3 November 1948, Page 7
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105Sting In The Tail Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 15, 3 November 1948, Page 7
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