PICKPOCKETS IN AUCKLAND
VISITOR ROBBED OF WALLET [United Pres* Association] AUCKLAND. This Day Pickpockets have been operating in Auckland. Late on Monday afternoon an elderly couple, visitors to New Zealand. entered a hotel lounge and ordered refreshments before going to their bedroom on the third floor. The husband paid for the refreshments with cash from his pocket, his wallet containing £9 in notes and a letter of credit for £6O was then in his inside breast pocket. Two men entered the lift r/*er them. “To which floor are you going'’” asked one, and on receiving a reply reached across and pressed the button for the third floor. After the couple left the two men descended in the lift and soon the visitor discovered that his wallet was missing. He notified the police and cancelled the letter of credit.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 7
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138PICKPOCKETS IN AUCKLAND Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 7
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