BOYS BREAK INTO MINT
GUARDS OUTWITTED i '*• Ranted a souvenir . Li.i - . ~ T SAN. FRANCISCO, Dee. 30.—Two' 15-year-old l schoolboys,., broke into, the. United States Mint undetected, and escaped with a copper.plate as a souvenir. The boys boasted the police by telephone about their j exploit. Tnen they returned to* the .jlint “to see tlie fun” land were captuued. The; Mint, which was recently elected. was designed l -to withstand armed’ assault, fire, earthquake, and burglary* ~ . " d 1 'A* . It u\is through a. second-story window, "wliiclF'tlif'y. g’eacimd Ly : dim Ling a drain pipef,.y^liat' (the hoys gained; access to the interior, 'of the Mint, which swarmed with i armed guards, I . '* v tT , mine of thorn until tiify V«■turned to the Mint on the second occasion. An
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 158, 15 March 1939, Page 4
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125BOYS BREAK INTO MINT Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 158, 15 March 1939, Page 4
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