A YOUTHFUL BANK ROBBER.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 51, 6 October 1875, Page 3

A YOUTHFUL BANK ROBBER.

THE THE FT OF £2,100. (From■'ft Melbourne paper.)

The notes stolen' from the Bank of Victoria,'amounting'in value to £2,100, have been recovered, and the thief has admitted Ids guilt. Tile money Avas missed out of a large sum, which a clerk named Edmund Ghinn, about LS years old, and another clerk had to deliver iu the course of exchange to other banks on the 21 th of last month. The detectives having been informed of the matter, made enquiries, and ascertained from the lads that they called at tin; National Bank, and'afterwards at the Colonial Banky where 'it avus discovered th at three small parcels of notes, value’ £2,400 Wore missing.- While they were at the Colonial Bank,' Ghiau went out for ; a fow ; minutes, for' tile purpose, he'/said.'of -posting 'a letter Rot his 'sister ’ at L TUcohhs ; Marsh,- ’aißl iV was form'd that ‘Khdiad posted siidh a letter, bht ■thatpa’oe&rdirig to the pbst-rhaik on the envelope, it whs posted’ a'D half-past ’ 11 a.m., and not at'half-past 9 a.m., at.: Which Colonial,! Bank. 1 Tih was j: iiriftlfl4 - r to -gdyc ; dihy) satisfactory explanation as to Avliat lie; didWhbn hoWetit out : afc 1 1 valDj aiuL this excited suspicion against!--hhh. i A few days afterwards, hoAvevci-, Avhilo the detectiVeg-word- Sedking ’cort-firiiiation of their suspicion; against .Ghinn, the defalcations oLtho ’receiying . teller,! Sawers,, who is now awaiting sentence for embezzlement, avoj’o,. discovered, and this circumstance completely- blinded” the trail' 1 for the time, as the .impression was-so strong ( that SaAvers! had stolen the, £2/,l i\( in ‘■_additf(ih to ! hnvinjg enibcz-, .zled'mjoney,' that, ; ajl the cffoiis ’bf the ; . detectives and the hank Avere directed, ’towards tracing the notes to Hawers.’ On' , • Wednesday evening,' PldmnndGhihn’s sister noticed that her brother had a quantity of new clothes Avliicii he conld- not have obtained in the ordinary way-.' ; she mentioned this" to: Tier 'e'xamiued , the lad.. Young 'Ghhin, however, was’so imsatisfactory in his explanation, that his father opened the lad’s hox, and there he found £I,GOO in bank notes. He took the' boy to . Mr .Mathison,the general manager of the Bank of Victoria, and to him, in the’presence of his father and two other-.gentlemen, the youth admitted that the notes: found-)were part of the stolen notes/ and that he had effected the robbery himself. Sergeant Holmes, Avhb was sent for, arrested the culprit, and found upon him £C4 19s, 10d., making the total amount recovered,. £ 1,G(!4. 9s. 10d.,--.out of the £2,100 1 stolen.:- ■