“USED GOODS”
SKELETON DESCRIBED
A SUSPICIOUS OFFICER
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.)
LONDON, March 18. The Geneva correspondent of the
■'Daily Mail” states that a Swiss Customs officer at Mateo was shocked on opening a long box to discover rt )iiluniii skeleton. Suspecting a crime, he excitedly demanded an explanation from tin* owners, and it was a long pi mo before In* was convinced that tho skeleton was that of a primitive Muon. He was then in a difficulty over the dassilical ion. eventually passing it as free mulct the heading of “used goods.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1932, Page 5
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