A BOGUS ROBBERY

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 253, 9 July 1926, Page 8

A BOGUS ROBBERY

MAN’S EFFORT TO AVERT SUSPICION “Accused, who is employed by the London Motor School, collected the sum of £3 3s. from a man whom he had been teaching to drive on the understanding that it would be paid to the firm. Instead of doing this, however, he spent the money, and in order to avoid suspicion falling on his shoulders he subsequently broke open a till in the office with the idea of letting bis employer think that the amount had been stolen. When the police investigated the affair the accused confessed to having done the job himself. “I think,” went on the Chief Detective, "that drink can be blamed for the ’whole trouble. As far as we know he lias never been in Court before.” These facts were related by Chief Detective Ward when Cecil. Francis Jellie, a salesman (aged 30) appeared in the Magistrates’ Court yesterday on a charge of stealing £3 Bs. from James Lynch, of the London Motor School, by failing to account to him for the same. Tlie Magistrate remanded Jellie until this morning for sentence pending a report from the Probation Officer.