FOOLISH OR INTREPID?
THIEVES FLIRT WITH DEATH Breaking into the warehouse of B. Addison, Limited, Ultimo, two young thieves recklessly flirted with death when they used lighted matches to facilitate their “job” of stealing several cases of highly inflammable petrol. Toward midnight, a lorry was seen by the night watchman being backed into the storehouse of petrol. He was next amazed to see two young men striking matches in the inidst of several hundred cases of benzine. Only inexperienced men would risk the terrible consequences of prowling near benzine with fire in their hands. He communicated with the police and several hours later Plainclothes Constable Lawless and others found the thieves asleep in the lorry, a. mile or so away from the premises. They were charged with breaking And entering.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 19
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130FOOLISH OR INTREPID? Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 19
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