UNSAFE DEPOSIT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18194, 3 October 1924, Page 2

UNSAFE DEPOSIT.

(tjlox oite owar nossxaroSDsn) SYDNEY, September 25. Women have a habit of sticking things down their blouses for safe-keep-ing. But it is sometimes an unsafe deposit. Only a while hack, in Sydney a woman lost a bundle of notes that wav. They slipped right down, on to the ground, and into someone else's pocket. Now there has been another somewhat humorous instance of the fact that tlie blouse is not a safe repository. It occurred at a well-known c-ity restaurant a night or two ago. A fashionable woman, whose husband wa-s entertaining a party of guests, suddenly turned sickly pale. Her valuable ' diamond brooch was missing. While dancing, she had unfastened it from her dress, rolled it in a paper serviette, and, woman-like, slipped it inside her blouse. The party searched everywhere. The brooch had completely disappeared. It was most embarrassing. Police, headquarters were immediately informed. Two detectives were just about to make a search of the cafe when a woman rushed in. The brooch, worth about £7O, had, she said, been found in a garbage tin. It had evidently fallen on to the dining table, been swept away among scraps of food, and emptied into the tin. Waiters and others commenced to rake through tha tin. ' There was the brooch, inside the bony remains of a chicken.