On the Verge of Robbery.

Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 110, 2 June 1885, Page 3

On the Verge of Robbery.

[Bt Telegraph.] (united pekss association.) UiißisxcHuncn, Ist Juno. A woman namod Johanna Moore was committed for trial to-day under a charge of larceny, tho circumstances of which are peonliar. It appears that two ladies were at the Christohuroh Kail way Station last Saturday, and went to a private apartment, in whioh one of them left her purse, containing over £20. The accused entered the apartment just after, and pqoketed the purse. She did not givo information to the police or railway offioials, but hurried away in company with a friend. The lady having missed her purse, and remembered where she had left it, suspioion was directed to the woman Moore, who was oalled back by a constable She did not then tell him of her find, and it was only when directly asked if she had fonnd any monoy that she prodnoed the missing purse. Mr. Boetham, R.M., considered the case to be just on the borderland between larceny and no larceny, and loft it for a jury to determine whether there was any intention to steal. LBt Telecibaph.] Ltttelton, This Day. -To saiUJjuiL-ri'-sigui" <Qj:.Wetfin£tur WANQANtrr, Thio Dat. Arrived, 1 p.m. — Stormbird, from Wellington. Westport, This Day. Sailed, 1 p.m.— Manawatu, for Wellington.