AN OLD STORY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1928, Page 13

AN OLD STORY

STEAMER PASSENGER ROBBED (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. One of the Niagara's passengers came ashore with a £50 note in his possession and wanted it changed. He discussed the matter with an affable stranger in Queen street, and the latter, on the pretext of getting the note changed, took him to a warehouse in a Baarby street. "' The man off tho Niagara waited patiently at tho door, "but in the meantime the stranger was making frantic efforts to find an exit from the back of tho warehouse which opens on to a back H lane. He went through the warehouse and into the basement, from whi".h there was no exit except through a double door that was barred and bolted. Ho asked a storeman to open tho door for him, and on being told that it co.uld jiot be done he asked the way out. Thinking he was a person with a legitimate reason for being in the warehouse, and that he had lost his way, the storeman directed him to a back exit one flight above, and to use the latter's expression, "Ho turned on his heel and went upstairs like one thing, and I told how to get out while the other poor fellow was waiting for his fifty pounds.'' Becoming perturbed, tho owner of the Jiote went inside the building, asked for the cashier, and inquired for the man who had cashed his £50 note. Then lie learned that ho had gone through the building.