PLAYED WITH DEATH
BOY USES DETONATORS AND GELIGNITE AS TOYS SYDNEY, Saturday. An 11-year-old boy played with death yesterday and did not know "it. He was happily enjoying himself with 250 detonatox's and 40 sticks of gelignite in a store in King Street, Newtown, when his father rushed in and took the explosives from him. Detectives feel sure that the stuff had been hidden in the place by an expert gang of safe-breakers The explosives were stolen on Decen.her 28 from the Austral Brickworks, St. Peters, with 50 more detonators, 60 sticks of gelignite, and a large quantitv of fuse. The owner of the store, Herbax-t Harding. who lives in Marga-et Street, Newtown, had no idea that tliev were on his prenxises. They had been placed in a littleused section of the building, and it is believed that the gangsters broke in and hid them there. Keith Harding, ' aged 11, found them there, and was playing happily with them when his father arrived. The prick of a pin on the. caps woxxld have caused an explos'on which woxxld have wreclced half the district.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 175, 17 March 1932, Page 6
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183PLAYED WITH DEATH Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 175, 17 March 1932, Page 6
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