A Fleeting Glimpse
RECENTLY Wellington was honored with a visit from five gentlemen from the, underworld, Men well known to the police, they stepped off the Auckland express, and. m a body went m search of lodgings.
Had they shown one iota of commonsense they would have made themselves a little less conspicuous and not marched through the town en masse.
On Lambton Quay, filling the footpath with their breadth, walked three plain-clothes men who, had an eye to their business. The two parties met broadside on — detectives and. crooks. .
Mutual recognition followed and then a quiet little confabulation between the opposing forces.
Just a mere suggestion — and the whole eight journeyed back to Thorndoh station where the five birds of passage, mustering between themselves enough money, purchased tickets' and caught the next train back to the northern capital. ,
And. when they were -gone the wire's buzzed with this intelligence of their coming. ' Yes, Wellington is no place for crooks! .
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NZ Truth, Issue 1196, 1 November 1928, Page 7
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160A Fleeting Glimpse NZ Truth, Issue 1196, 1 November 1928, Page 7
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