THEFT OF A PORTMANTEAU.
AUCKLAND,. July 28. A week ago last Friday an intending passenger by the south express lost Ids luggage, which had been placed on the platform of the Auckland station in tho afternoon and was gone when the owner came to look for it just prior to the departure of the train. It contained, in addition to a valuable outfit of clothing, eight debentures (each of £250) i.-smsl by the International Petroleum and Mineral Corporation and a number of legal documents valued at about £39. On fcsatuiday afternoon Detective Quartermain arrested a man named James Hogan, aged 35, on a charge of having stolen a trunk and contents, the property of Percy Arthur Hadley. Hogan was arrested iu consequence of the sale of several of tho articles that had been in the portmanteau. The debentures, which were not negotiable and were recovered, were thrown carelessly on a si.elf in the room occupied by Hogan. At the Police Cqurt this morning the accused remanded f>r a week, bail being fixed at two sureties of £75 each.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3098, 30 July 1913, Page 35
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178THEFT OF A PORTMANTEAU. Otago Witness, Issue 3098, 30 July 1913, Page 35
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