POCKETS PICKED
TRAVELLERS BY TRAM VICTIMS IN CAPITAL STOREMAN’S £l3O LOSS SAVINGS FOR HOME (P«r Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. It is understood that a number of reports of alleged activities of pickpockets were received at the detective office, Wellington, yesterday.
A storeman working for Johnston and Company, Limited, Wellington, said in ah interview (that he had lost between £l3O and £l5O, mostly in £5 notes. The money represented his personal savings over a considerable period. He said he had been carrying the notes in a wallet in his hip pocket for some days and had intended using it in carrying out some improvements at his home.
He thought he had the money with him when he went home for lunch at 12.15 p.m. He travelled by tram. When he returned to his work at 1 o’clock he found the money was missing from his pocket.
A second man who was interviewed yesterday stated that £3O in notes had been stolen from his pocket. He is a Government employee. He said that he travelled on a crowded tram. He had the money with him in his pocket, ■ but when he alighted from the tram he discovered it was gone.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19820, 23 December 1938, Page 5
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199POCKETS PICKED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19820, 23 December 1938, Page 5
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