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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 101, 19 December 1931, Page 7

V A boy of 12, on being arrested on 11 housebreaking charges, in Sydney, attempted to take poison. A detective dashed the bottle from his hand. Accused is a great reader of detective fiction. "A great reader, perhaps— but hardly a good" technician," • Mr. Edgar Wallace' said over the longdistance wire this morhing. "Our miscreants never use the bottle bottle method. "A sm'all p*hial containing a pale blue liquid,' or a 'swift movement of the hand to the lips,' following which he crashes sneeringly at the feet of his disgruntled captors — that's the proper technique. However, the poison method is rarely considered suitable for miscreants of such tender years — the restrietive and oppressive law regarding the sale of poisons, you know! For a master crook under ten years of age I should recommend the more spectacular (and effective methods of (1) Blowing himself and premises. to smithereehs with 1,000,0001b. "of purloined ammonnal; (2) zooming off in his plivate 'plane to crash burning into the sea; or (3) slaying the attackers down to the last sergeant and then committing hara-kiri on the heaped-up corpses."