CRIMINALS OBJECT
POLICE DECISION. TO PAINT THEIR HANDS RED. [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn,] (Received September 21, 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, September 21. The Daily Telegraph’s Bucharest correspondent says that Roumanian pick-pockets have become alarmed at a police decision to paint their hands and ears an ineradicable red, in order to check the increasing pocketpicking in Roumania. The pickpockets have held two protest meetings, demanding protection against this as being an “unconstitutional measure.
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Grey River Argus, 22 September 1937, Page 7
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71CRIMINALS OBJECT Grey River Argus, 22 September 1937, Page 7
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