J-- — - Pitt Street was the scene of an interesting nocturnal drama the other night (says the Wanganui Herald). A resident in khat respectable thoroughfare heard a disturbance in nis back garden, ,and on making investigation was just in time to see a dark figure leaving the garden with a loaded sack. The marauder audaciously asked : “ I suppose you think I am stealing your fowls ?” to whicihi the householder replied : " 1 don’t, think, I am sure you are.” Thereupon the chicken stealer dropped his bag and bolted. Upon opening tfc;e. receptafele, the owner recovered six of his own choice fowls and .three belonging to someone else,-all alive and well.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4462, 4 September 1922, Page 4
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