HIDDEN TREASURE
A DAUGHTER'S RUSE. £22,000 Hidden In Stove And Sofa. ■ THEFT CHARGE DISMISSED. (Received 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Pearl Cressy, a manned woman, was charged- in Caulfield Court with stealing bank notes to the value of £22,000, the property of her mother, Gertrude Palmer, who gave evidence reluctantly and somewhat incoherently.
She said her daughter advised her to convert Government bonds at £22.000 into cash and to re-invest it in mortgages at eight per cent, which was a better proposition.
To this the mother acquiesced and the cash was brought home and hidden in a sofa and a gas stove. On the following morning the daughter rose much earlier than usual and rushed into her mother's room and exclaimed that the money had been stolen.
The daughter thereafter was in opulent circumstances. She bought a car, dressed expensively and offered to take her mother on a trip to England.
The case was dismissed,
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 9
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HIDDEN TREASURE
Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 9
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