UNSAFE DEPOSIT

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 80, 1 October 1924, Page 9

UNSAFE DEPOSIT

Women have a habit of sticking things down their blouses for safe-keeping But it is sometimes an unsafe deposit. Only a while back im Sydney a woman lost a bundle of notes that way. They slipped right down on to the ground and mto someone else's pocket. Now there has been another somewhat humorous in stance of the fact that the blouse is not a safe repository. It occurred at a well-known city -restaurant a night or two ago. A fashionable woman, whbse husband -was entertaining a party of guests, suddenly turned sickly pale. Her valuable diamond brooch was miasinir While dancing fl he had tmfastened it from her dress, rolled it in a paper serviette and, woman-like, elippedft inside her blouse. The party searched everywhere. The brooch had completely disappeared. It _w M . most embarr^s^. Police headquarters were immediatefv informed. Two detectives wera just about to make a search of the cafe, when a woman rushed in. The brooch worth about £70, had, she said, Teen found iii a garbage tin. It had evidently fallen on to the dining table been swept away among scraps of food' and emptied into tho tin. Waiters and others commenced to rake through tb.9 tm.. There was the brooch, inside tha bony ternaifli fii * chicken,