A YOUTHFUL BANK ROBBER-THE THEFT OF 2100

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1753, 27 September 1875, Page 2

A YOUTHFUL BANK ROBBER-THE THEFT OF 2100

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THEFTJ]? The notes stolen froityhe Baijbl^. amounting in value toxJjftO,\ „uK "*•'-*' covered, and the thief has aWitte™ M^M The money was misled out of a lanSh hich a clerk named Edmund Ghinn aIM I eighteen years old, and another clerk' hai> 1 deliver in the course of exchange to oth « banks on the 24th of last month. TV 1 detectives having been informed of th I matter, made enquiries, and ascertained h the lads that they called a t the Nfl£3 Bank, and afterwards at the Colonial Bank where it was discovered that three sm 11 " parcel of notes, value £2100, were miesini While they were at the Colonial Banf Ghinn went put for a few minutes, for th' purpose, he said, of posting a letter to his sister at Bacchus Marsh, and ifc was found that he had posted such a letter, but that according to the post-mark on the envelope* it was posted at half-past 11 a.m., and no* at half-past 9 a.m., at which hour the lad left the Colonial Bank. He was unable to give any satisfactory explanation as to what he did when be want out at half-past 9, and this excited .suspicion against him. A few days afterwards, however, while the detectives were (seeking confirmation of their suspicion against Ghinn, the defalcations of the receiving teller, Sawera, who is now awaiting sentence for embezzlement, were discovered, and this circuEwtance completely blinded the trail for the time, as the impression was fo strong that Sawers had stolen the £2,100 in addition to having embezzled money that all the efforts of the detectives and the bank were directed towards tracing the notes to Sawer3. On Wednesday evening, Edmund Ghmn's sister noticed that her brother had a quantity of new clothes which he could not have obtained in the ordinary way, and she mentioned this to her fathpr who examined the lad. Young Ghinn, however was so unsatisfactory in his explanation that' his father opened the lad's box, and there he found £1,600 in bonk notes. He took the boy to Mr. Mathison, the general manager of the Bank of Victoria, and to him, in the presence of his father and two other gentlemen, the youth admitted that "the notes found were part of the stolen notes and that he had effected the robbery himself. Sergeant Holmes, who was sent for, arrested the culprit, and found upon him £64195. 10J. making the total amount recovered £I,GG4 93. lOd. out of the £2,loostolen. '