“£SO NOTHING TO ME”
ALLEGED THEFT OF £1,700
LONDON, July 10.
Gordon Ashcroft, agoi thirty, an Australian, who styled himself _ a stockbreeder, and who had been living at the Savoy Hotel, was remanded at the Marlborough Street Police 'Court to-day on a charge of stealing £1,700 from James Smith, in Piccadilly. Replying to the arresting 'detective’s suggestion that ho had cashed two of the stolen £SO notes, Ashcroft said : i( I may or may not have done so. Fifty pounds isn’t a lot of money to me.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19002, 25 July 1925, Page 6
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