DECOYED TO FLAT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 January 1927, Page 8

DECOYED TO FLAT

AND AWOKE IN PARK. The old trick of substituting a bundle of pieces of paper for a roll of notes in a drunken man’s pocket was mentioned in a ease at Darliughurst Quarter Sessions, Sydney. Rose Weir, a young woman, was charged with having stolen from -John Neilson £ 7-3, at Darliughurst last month. Walking along Castlereagli Street on the night he was robbed, Neilson said that lie was accosted by the woman Weir and invited to a party. - Although he had never seen hex before in his life he consented. They took a taxi to a flat in Darliughurst, and there, alter several whiskies, which he paid for, he lapsed into unconsciousness. The next thing he remembered was being shaken by a constable in Rushcutters Bay Park. He searched his pockets and found that £75 had been stolen from him, and a sheaf of paper, cut in such a way that in touching them they felt like a roll of notes, were put in place of the money. In hi,s summing up, Judge Curlewis remarked on the carelessness of people carrying such large -sums of money about with them. “Had I the power,” he told the jury, “1 would send such people to gaol for putting temptation in the way of others.” Weir was found guilty and remanded for .sentence.