ALLEGED THEFT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17607, 24 October 1931, Page 3

ALLEGED THEFT

j SUM OF £IO,OOO INVOLVED l.ONl)ON, Oct. 4. Norman Hill. 35, smartly dressed and described as a- sales , manager with rib fixed* address, offered 1 to find £IOOO bit'll .when remanded at Marlborough street Pclic’e Court’ to-day,, but the magistrate refused to release liiiri. The charge, in wlribh two other men not, iti custody are concerned, was one of stealing £IO,OOO by means of a trick ■frorri Lewis Leslie Purinett, at the Hit/. Hotel, on Septe/nber 14. Detective-Inspector Smith, of Scotland Yard, said that when' he searched Hill on his arrest at Dover Fie: found o.i him an automatic pistol, 50 cartridges and 10 1000-franc notes. Replying to Hill’s solicitor, Mr. JCdmond O’Connor, Smith said he knew Hint Hill travelled extensively on the Continent with an Australian passport. , Mr. O'Connor: Do . yon know that he ••rime here in 1915 with the A.LF., and served overseas until the end of the war ? Smith: I think lie has hac! some nririy experience. I' understand' that the prosecutor is now on his way from Trinidad.