CHARGE OF ROBBERY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14978, 26 April 1909, Page 7

CHARGE OF ROBBERY.

THE CANCELLED BANK NOTES. AN ARREST IN WELLING J. ON. [Peii Press Association.] ' WELLINGTON, April 25. On the arrival this morning of tho Maori from Lyttelton Jamos Hemingway was arrested by Detectives Broberg, Lewis and Andrews on a charge of having on January 10 last broken into the parcels office at the General Post Office, Wellington, and dyna.inited a safe and stolen jowellery to tlie value of £39, with £3l 19s 6d in cash, £6O worth .of postage stamps, also cancelled notes as follows:—4o6 £1 notes, 44 £5 notes and eight £lO notes, which" had been forwarded by a southern branch of the Bank of New Zealand to the head office. Hemingway is to he charged with breaking into tho Wellington Post Office between 4.30 p.m. on January 10 and 7.50 on January 11 and forcing open the safe with some explosive. The articles taken from the safe included an opon-faced silver watch valued at £1 10s, a diamond pin valued at £1 10s, a gold chain valued at £3 10s, a gold signet ring valued at £l, a diamond scarf-pin valued at £3, a silver cigarette-case and match-box valued at £1 10s, a single-stono diamond ring valued at £l2, and other artioles of jewellery to the total value of £24 12s 6cl; also a. registered parcel containing a silver tankard, forwarded by Messrs B. Petersen and Co., ChVietchurch, and valued a.t £ls; four metal cashboxes coaataining money to the amount of £3l 19s 6d and stamps to the value of £6O 7s 2d; 406 cancelled £1 notes, forty-four cauoellod £5 notes aaid eight cancelled £lO notes. The Christchurch police found 123 of the £1 notes in a bag which was left last Monday at the Fedei-al Coffee Palace, Christchurch, where Hemingway had been staying. It is believed that sixty of the £1 notes and a fow of the £5 notes were put into circulation in Chidstchurch. The hag which was found at tho Coffee Palace contained all the materials for “ faking” the cancelled notes by pasting portions of other notes over the cancellation hole, and also a number of small tins of oonfectionery, cakes of soap and other cheap articles, which, it is thought, the owner of tho bag had purchased in order to change the notes.