ROBBED OF £50

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 August 1928, Page 2

ROBBED OF £50

YOUNG MIGRANT’S LOSS.

MELBOURNE, August 15

By trusting an affable and welldressed stranger this morning,.Richard Bernard Korn, aged 18 years, a migrant from Great Britain, lost a £5O note which he had just withdrawn from the savings bank. In a statement to the police Korn said that he was about to go to Perth by ship. In Little Collins, Street a strange man asked him the way to Russell Street. Korn said that he did not know, and the man began a friendly conversation, in which he mentioned that he intended to travel to Perth on the same ship as Korn. The two walked along to a shop, and the stranger asked Korn to lend him the £5O to buy a present for his wife. “I will see you on the boat this afternoon,” he said to Korn, “and it will be all right.” After some hesitation Korn handed him the £5O note. The stranger then handed him 3d, and asked him if he would be good enough to buy a duty stamp for him. Korn crossed the street with the intention of doing so, but feeling suspicious, he stood behind a lorry and watched the man and a companion. They appeared to be talking. His attention was distracted for a moment, and when he looked again the men were gone.