YOUNG WOMAN'S WILES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22609, 28 June 1935, Page 8

YOUNG WOMAN'S WILES

CYCLE DEALER VICTIMISED SALE OF STOLEN MACHiNES (Peb United Pbess Association) - HAWERA, June 27. Practically every cycle dealer in Hawera is bemoaning the fact that he recently fell a victim to the wiles of a young woman and paid- over good money for a bicycle which the woman had no right to sell. The woman could not have been more than 19 years of age. She went; into a shop and told a tale about how she was going to Wanganui and did not want to have the inconvenience of taking her bicycle with her on the back of her baby ear. She asked the dealer what he could do about it, and if he would buy the cycle. He agreed to buy for 12s 6d, and the girl left the shop, to return in a few minutes with the bicycle, and the money ,was paid over. She then departed, not for Wanganui, but to another cycle shop. Three more dealers were caught with a similar tate and with the same resilt before it was discovered that ail the cycles had been stolen from the street.

The woman, who has not since been located, obtained in all about £4,