POLICE HOAXED
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AUCKLAND, Last Night. An urgent but" false telephone massage to police headquarters to-night saying that a young woman had been j stabbed and lay seriously wounded in a 1 building in Customs street east gave a j squad of detectives a great deal of i trouble. A general inquiry had to bd made at the hospitals in case the infor- | matiou was correct but the raessage was | proved a hoax. The 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 tKorough round of inquiries was made before the hunt was abandoned.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 132, 21 June 1937, Page 2
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