THIEF CAUGHT.
CASHED NOTES AT OAMARU. . (Per Press Association.) OAMARU, East Night. The perpetrator of the bank robbery at Milton on the 30th inst. has been arrested here by Constable Palmer today. He is Victor Keen, a horse trainer, of Milton. News of the robbery was received here at 9 a.rn., and the arrest was made at noon. One of the £lO notes had been cashed at the railway station yesterday evening. Another attempt at negotiation to-day was intercepted by the constable, who made the arrest before it had reached the bank, but the note had already been passed through three hands. Keen arrived in Oam.aru by the late train last night and he cashed a £lO note with a carrier, and this led to his arrest. The constable has recovered £396 of the missing money.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14105, 3 May 1919, Page 5
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