A clerk, whose false teeth suddenly disappeared from his dressing table the previous night, offered a reward for their recovery. A young man took up the offer, visited the house, and from a hole beside a stump, he extracted many odds and ends, including his prize.
Attached to the false teeth was a rubber grip which had been gnawed by the culprit – a rat!
Source: Western Star and Roma Advertiser, Wednesday 10 January 1934