MONEY IN COAL SCUTTLE
A FORTUNATE RECOVERY In May Miss Xeil, sister of (he licensee of the Palace Uoiel, Bourko street, Melbourne, placed £l7l, in notes and Mime valuable papers in a cigar box, and wlie.u dosing the hotel bar slipped tin; cigar box into a coal scuttle in one of tno hotel rooms, intending later to get the levs from her sister and put the money in the safe. It was some hours later vc'ln■ n ,-be went to look for tin; money, and to her dismay she found the coa.l scuttle empty. One of the hotel ft.rtf reported 1 hat he bad cleaned out the room and had emptied t.iio contents of the scuttle on a rubbish heap in the hotel yard. A senrdi of the rubbish heap was fruitless. The police were limn informed, and the night patrol was sent to investigate. Senior Constable Cornish questioned a m,or boardim; at the bold, and. under pressure, he admitted having taken file money from (lie rubbish heap and given it to a friend in Fitzroy to mind. Accompanied by the pnliet, ho went to a house in Victoria parade, Fitzroy, whore the money was recovered. Miss Xeil declined to take unv nroeeedings aeainsi the lodger, and with the consent of the I’ohe; •'Vminiisstoner she handed £lO to Senitv Constable Cornish to be divided amongst the members of the patrol.
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Evening Star, Issue 18964, 11 June 1925, Page 12
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230MONEY IN COAL SCUTTLE Evening Star, Issue 18964, 11 June 1925, Page 12
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