THEFT OF MONEY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 334, 4 March 1915, Page 3

THEFT OF MONEY.

TWO GIRLS ARRAIGNED. Press .4 asocial ion. W IvLLT NO TO \, March 4. Dorothy Scoullar, otherwise Soutar, and Lesley Held were coin in ift od for trial on a charge of stealing £l4l 5/- from the Puke of J:<{i!i]>ur-h Hotel on February 1(5. It was stated that £o3 K'./S had been recovered and the balance had been spent. The girls wore arrested at "Woodville, and afterwards confessed to the police. | The two girls were arrested at Woodville on a warrant issued in connection with the disappearance of the money referred to from the trunks of two theatrical performers who were staying at the Duke of Kdiuburgh Hotel. * The girls went to the hotel to secure a position as maid to the owners of the money, and one of them succeeded in inveigling from the room a girl who had been left in charge during the absence of the players. It was alleged that the theft was then' perpetrated.] 1