FEROCIOUS HOUND
ATTEMPT TO BOMB IT. (Australian Press Association) MELBOURNE, May 27. An unoccupied police station at Ivanhoe was last night badly damaged by a bomb being thrown over the fence in to the yard. Tho police believe the motive’ was a desire to kill a ferocious bloodhound kept there, which recently played a prominent part in the capture of night prowlers. The bomb landed on the garden path, in wlich it blew a large hole. A shed was wrecked, the windows of the station were shattered, and several houses in the vicinity were shaken. A . brick from the shed was hurled into a nearby yard, narrowly missing a man’s head, and smashing the steering wheel of a car.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1929, Page 5
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119FEROCIOUS HOUND Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1929, Page 5
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