ROBBED OF £50.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 August 1928, Page 7

ROBBED OF £SO.

A YOUNG MIGRANT. MEETING WITH AFFABLE STB ANGE R, By Irtisiug ,au affable and weM(l reused stranger one morning hist week a*:- Melbourne, Richard Bernard Korn, aged IS years, a migrant from Great Britain, lost a. £SO note which, he had just withdrawn from the savings hank. In: a statement to the police, Korn said that he was about to go to Perth by ship. In Little Collins Street a. strange mail asked him the way to K'wsel Street. Korn said that hp. did not know, and the man,began a friend - i.v conversation, jn wlfch lie -mentoned l hat. he intended to travel to Perth oil the same ship as Korn.- The two wailkS ed along to a shop, and tine stranger

;>’.kcd Korn to lend him the £SO to buy a. present tor his wife. ■‘J will see voii on the boat this-after-noon,” he said to Korn, “and it will le all. rijflit.” After snmc hesitation Korn gave bun the £SO note. The stranger then handed him threepence, and asked him if he would be good enough to buy a duty staino for him. Korn crossed the street with the intention of doing so-, hut feeling suspicious, be stood behind' a lorry and watched the man and a. coin pan ion. They appeared to be talkbig. His., .attention was distracted for a moment, and when lie looked again (he men were gone,..