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Hopeful! Recently, late at night, somebody rang up and wanted to know what happened to a prisoner who escaped frort the Lyttelton Gaol in 1897, but that experience was as nothing com pare! with that of the sporting editor of an Australian paper. Came an inquiry over the wire, “Can you tell me when and where Charlie Garland died? ’ Said the scribe, “Hang on a minute and I'll look in the death-book. Cant find any record of a mar. named Garland. What was he. owner. Jockey, tr trainer?" Said the Inquiring on;. "IS e was a pouitry farmer up Shop tarter. |way." Still the sporting editor tv;t polite. He suggested that !h« inquirer should And out from the .Agricultural editor, and collapsed altogether nt thie come back: "No, I don’t want to ta k to him. If you don’t know, it’s hopeless. But you should know him. He has been dead about 20 years, and before he died he used to come down to Melbourne every Saturday for the races.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 171, 10 October 1927, Page 7
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185Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 171, 10 October 1927, Page 7
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