STOLEN JEWELS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1933, Page 5

STOLEN JEWELS

Al AN FINED FOR FRAUD. LONDON. July 1. As a sequel to a recent ,£l,OOO jewel theft from a train al. King's Cross Station, London, Michael Joseph Kennedy, 2G, a motor driver, was at Liverpool yesterday fined <£s for attempting to obtain .£lOO by false pretences from Mrs Helen Pitts, of Kyleakin, Isle of Skye, who lost, the jewellery. I: was stated that Kennedy, seeing tho loss of tho jewellery advertised, wrote to Airs Pitts inviting her to go to a.' Liverpool hotel. Kennedy afterwards telephoned to the hotel, mid asked a woman who was acting under the instructions of the police to meet him outside the hotel carrying a blue handkerchief and with £lOO in an open envelope. She kept the appointment and Kennedy said if she gave him the £lOO he would point out. a man in the street, who had the jewellery.