Love Letter Clue

NZ Truth, Issue 946, 12 January 1924, Page 8

Love Letter Clue

SAVAGE 6ETB A BURPRISE. ■ (From "Truth's" Wanganui Rep.) ■ On New. Year's Day a gay trio of young bloods— Edward Hunter Stokes. John Worth and Harry Alfred Savage '— we re not attracted by Uio sport of kings at barton, probably duo to a stale of impecuniosity after the Christmas fraternities. . The. star attraction as far as they were concerned was the clpsed-up shop of Doog Fee, a Chinese fruiterer, of Wa»>S&n\ii, who had sold so many .bananas during the holidays that he could afford to take a day off and study the tote at Marton. In the evening Dong returned and found that &9 108 had disappeared from his cash-box. "and that cigarettes to the value of £4 10s were missing. " Ho bolted so fast to the Police Station, that on arrival he was OUT? OF WIND. The energetic detective soon hit the trail accompanied by the jabbering Chow. Onccin thesnop If'dld "not take long for thokeen eye of'Gourlay to spot a letter that' had been" dropped on. the floor. This epistle commenced, "My own darling sweeiheart," How nice, thought Gourlay, as he read on. Tpe* letter was full of sweet slobber from a young lady m the Ojd Country who was counting the'days when she wpuld 'rejoin some noble young man In God's Own and when they too should be- as one. Although there was no name m the letter, it happened that the young man was Harry Alfred Savaged '■•■■■■ .. .Gpurlay. landed on Savage In a very simple way. Savage called at the Chow.'a shop and told Dong that he had seen . ■ ;.. ... THREE SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS around tho premises. ~ ' ' •Bavnge was later sought out and brought to Dong's shop. There he was extremely polite. He knew nothing more than that he had seen three men m the vicinity of the shop. Detective Gourlay then produced the, letter and "My own darling sweetheart" did the trick. Savage collapsed on the floor, and It took tho biggest part of n bucket of water, poured over his head, to bring him round. He thon^madd an open confession. He showed the detective where:, the cigarettes were planted along the banks of the Wanganul. He , also implicated the OTHER TWO COMPANIONS already named and It did not tnko very long for tKo police to round thorn up. Tho trio oppenrcd at the Court, and as it was necessary to make further inquiries, they were remanded for a week. .