UNSAFE HIDING PLACES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 4 October 1924, Page 11

UNSAFE HIDING PLACES

VALUABLE'S IN BLOUSES

Women have a habit of sticking things down their blouses for safe keeping. !’>ut it is sometimes an unsafe, deposit-. Only a while back, in Sydney, a woman lost" a bundle of notes that way. They slipped right down to the ground and into someone, rise’s pocket. Now there has been another humorous instance of the fact that the blouse is not a safe repository, it occurred at a well-known city restaurant a night or two ago. A fashionable woman, whose husband was entertaining n parly cl’ guests, suddenly turned sickly pale. Her valuable diamond brooch, worth about £7O was missing. While dancing she had unfastened it from her dress, rolled it in a paper serviette, and, woman-like, slipped it inside her blouse. The party searched everywhere . The brooch had completely disappeared. It was most embarrassing. Police headquarters were immediately informed. The detectives were just about to make a search of the cafe when a woman rushed in. The .brooch had, she said, been found in a garbage tin. It had evidently fallen on to the dining table, been swept away among scraps of food, and emptied into the tin. Waiters and others, when the loss was reported, bad commenced to rake through the tin. There was t'he brooch, inside the • bonv remains of a, chicken. —Herald correspondent.