A strange theft. 1935.

Definitely a strange theft. 20 miles of sausage skins. Hmmm… what would you need with 20 miles of sausage skins?

The West Australian 21 Mar 1935
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32838783

A butcher, of course, would find a use for them but he would have to be a pretty popular butcher if he was expecting to sell the 302,400 sausages that would fit in that much skin.

I wonder if the thieves thought that the 5cwt (5 hundredweight, about 250kg) of sausage skins were actually something else?

Did they get this very heavy stash back home, rip off the covering with a flourish, and find disappointingly empty sausage skins rather than the big slab of meat they thought they had stolen?

I wonder what else you can do with sausage casings? Do ou think there is there some other reason they could have stolen them?

Where was she going to put it!? 1846.

South Australian Register 13 Jun 1846 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27453087

When I read the inventory of things this ‘genteel’ lady had secreted about her person I wondered big the muff she was carrying was!

Not only that, how did she get the other things under her skirts without someone noticing?

Quite a selection she had stashed away there. Apart from the clothing she seemed to be just doing her shopping for a nice night in with a friend. Oysters, broiled crab, codfish, fruit, vegetables, dessert and some reading material. Along with the cut glass tumblers, all she needed was a bottle of red and she was set.