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  "path": "/2026/04/09/tales-of-true-crime-pilfering-a-costly-vice/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-09T07:00:00.000Z",
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    "stories and poems",
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    "German Destroyers",
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  "textContent": "Orkney, 100 Years Ago. “There has been a great deal of pilfering and stealing going on at Lyness, and it is extremely difficult to detect.” – James Begg, Fiscal, Orkney Sheriff Court In 1926, James Sutherland, a labourer was charged with stealing a bench vice from a salvaged German destroyer lying at Lyness, Hoy. Pleading […]",
  "title": "Tales of True Crime: Pilfering, a costly vice"
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