POCKET PICKED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 13

POCKET PICKED.

HOTEL HAPPENING. GUEST LOSES HIS WALLET. AUTOMATIC LIFT INCIDENT. Auckland lint fortunately been comMiinttivoiy free from pickpoeket* for » |,iii<r period, 'nit mi incident which iHTiirri'd mi Monday in the city suggests tlint sneak thieves are Hgiiin operating. TIIO9O who imp interested in tlie activities of [ewel thieves, whoever they may lip, nrp woliflerinjr whether they mny he inTiimiiliit injr their haul of diamond rinszs f"' , di*posal in another country, nnrl hlmi whether tliey arc picking « few pockets in their leisure hour* to provide themselves \»illi ren(ly chhli, Pipkpockel.i "-pre l>u»y in n liirjre city lidtrl la-t Moiidiiv nfternoon. Shortly iiftpr 4 n'clock mi elderly emiple who are uniting New Zenlund went into tlie mill ordered refreshments heforc to their hedromn on the tliird fluor. 'l"he hn-Imnct puid for the rpfreshnipnt- with cii!*li which he took from hi* pocket. He is rcrtniii (lint hix wallet, which ri'iituined t'.i in notert nn<i n letter uf credit, for £t»(». wnn (hen in his inside heiist pocket. WiMi hi-i wife he entered the Hiitomiitic lift. Two men followed tliem into the lift. "To which Moor nre you jroing?' , inquired one of the two men. The elderly mini siii<l h<> wns »nin«{ to the tliird. anil hut ton No. .'! win* pressed liy the m<l The elderly couple left the lilt nt the third Hour. The lift descended with the two men. Not long nftervviirds tin 1 visitor found (lint, hi* wnllet lmd ilituppeiired. So had the two men. lie imniediillely informed the police <if his |(ks mill cnlicelled the letter of credit. lie reci>llectn that the mnn Inwshed in front of him when reaching to [ness the button.