IS YEARS IN HIDING.
LIFE IN AN ATTIC. I -When some linen was stolen from a workhouse in King's County the Sinn Fein "detectives" were given ; the task of tracing it. Every house in the town was ! searched, and a raid was made at midnight on an hotel. The landlady and several maids, in their nightclothes, were questioned, and their beds searched, but without result. Despite protests from the landInch 1 the "detectives" forced the door of an attic and were met by a wildlooking man, with flowing unkept hair, and a beard reaching dofffrfto his waist. He was supposed to-have gone to the United States 15 years '•vo to escape a police court charge, b,.t the landlady explained that he hat! hidden in the attic since then.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 578, 26 October 1920, Page 2
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128IS YEARS IN HIDING. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 578, 26 October 1920, Page 2
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