ALL A FAKE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 56, 4 May 1928, Page 6

ALL A FAKE

ALLEGED ROBBERY. POSTMASTER'S CONFESSION. "It was all a lake." ■ ..-... "I,store the money, and made out I hkd been drugged, so that it would be thought that' someone had broken iU and burgled the place." Henry Charles Docldsj who yesterday morning was found 'in a seemingly drugged condition in his bedroom at tlie rear of the Seven Hills Post Office, hvade this, .confession to -De-tective-Sergeant Walsh] '.and Detective McCarthy this morning. . Dodds was thereupon, arrested, and charged to-dliy under section 71 df the Commonwealth Crimes Act with having,, "stolen certain moneys, to \Vith £201) U, the property of the Commonwealth.'' When Dodds was discovered yesterday morning by his assistant, Arthur Chirosby, the post office bore all the appearances of having been visited «by burglars. A shutter had .been forced open, arid a wfliidow forced up, while /books and papers were strewn j everywhere, and the safe.' was open.' .Cash, stamps, and postal notes had j disappeared. A large-, safe in an office in which Dodds conducted! the business of a land agent and the agency of the Lavender! Farm Exchange. Co., of Martin-place, had Idso been forded open, and Dodds told the police that £2OO of his own money and' £175 dl the Lavender Farm Exchange Co.'s money had 'disappeared,, as' well as the post office property. At Parramatta tliis morning, before Mr Mekdsj, chamber magistrate, Dodds was charged with having, between February 2fr and April 17, 1928, fraudulently appropriated £2OO 4s, the property of the Commonwealth Government. He was remanded till April 30, bail bf Sell £2OO and one surety of £2OO, or two of £IOO beiing allowed. ' f'.> v --,'H ' <l ■'■ -.'v'-t _ : ' J -J| : ' -'.'i 'mSSmmm mihi SSmSBSSm