STRANGE CRIME
ATTEMPT TO UAS PKOPI,K, (Australian Press Association). HJnited Service). SYDNEY, Dec. 27. A rcmaikahe crime was i(‘ported by detectives to-day. perpetrated in a cottage at Arcadia Street, Congee, occupied by Morris Levy. insurance agent, his wife, and grown-up daughter. Somebody attached a garden bos.' to the gas meter and then placed the other end through a window where Miss Levy was sleeping. Fumes spread through the home and awakened Mr Levy at about three a.m. and lie hurriedly opened every window without striking a match. Ho called to his daughter, who was unharmed. The hose was not Levy’s property. A man’s footprint was discovered mar tli(> daughter’s window. Levy declares he has not a solitary enemy, and his daughter knows no reason why anyone should desire to take her life.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1928, Page 1
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132STRANGE CRIME Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1928, Page 1
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