SHOOK HANDS.
ACCUSER AND ACCUSED.
RECEIVING CHARGE DISMISSED.
When Lawrence Harbutt, aged 33, of St. Mary's Road, Edmonton, N., was found not guilty at London Sessions of receiving the well-known Avonmore collection of banknotes and discharged, Mr. Frederick George Catling, the prosecutor, shook hands with him as he left the dock.
Mr. J. Burge, for the prosecution, said that the collection consisted of 40,000 banknotes valued at £15,000.
The collection was stolen from the town house of Mr. Frederick Ernest Catling, at Avonmore Road, West Kensington, and later, as a result of an anonymous letter to Mr. Frederick George Catling, tho son, an advertisement was put in the "Daily Herald," and a green attache case left at King's Cross Station.
Police kept watch, and when Hart>utt, a man of good character, collected the case, he was arrested.
Harbutt, who was charged in the name of Harold Jones, said a man from whom he had taken bets asked him to go to King's Cross Station, collect the case and sign for it in the name of F. Carr.
He bad no idea what the case contained, and did not know the name or addreao of the man.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 291, 8 December 1937, Page 20
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