£22,000 MISSING
MARRIED WOMAN CHARGED. A MOTHER’S FALTERING EVIDENCE. Melbourne, May 26. Pearl Cressy, a married woman, was charged in the Caulfield Court with stealing bank notes valued at £22,000, the property of her mother, Gertrude Palmer, who gave her evidence reluctantly and somewhat incoherently. She said her daughter advised her to convert Government bonds valued at £22,000 into cash and reinvest it in mortgages at 8 per cent, which was a better proposition, to which the mother acquiesced The cash was brought home and hidden in a sofa and also a gas stove. The following morning the daughter, Pearl Cressy, rose much earlier than usual and rushed into her mother’s room and exclaimed that the money had been stolen. The daughter thereafter became opulent, bought a car, dressed expensively and offered to take her mother on a trip to England. The case was dismissed.—Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20497, 28 May 1928, Page 7
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