AN IMPUDENT THEFT.
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 24. Numerous imoudent thefts bave occurred lately and to-day a, cash box in the premises of Mr. Fountain, dentist, was daringly lifted A lady attendant was making up the accounts in the drossins-room, having beside her at the table the open cash box. A screen and tho door hid the table, from observation from the corridor. The young lady had occasion to go to one of the other rooms -of tho office suite and round the cor-. (- mer. tin-the corridor, shei met -a. man waiting. In answer to the usual question aj3 to whether he wanted to see anyone, he replied: " I'm just waiting for my friend who is-with the dentist." * #h« ypung ludy-went on and.a. moment or two later she returned to the dressing room, when she met another man just coming out of the door of the room. Sho questioned his right to be there, and ho replied that ho had to see the dentist. She asked him to wait in the waiting room and he complied, but sho observed him . immediately after join tho other man in the corridor and gooff with him. At that time sho missed the cash box from the dressing room table. Tho men wero not caught.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 26 October 1912, Page 7
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212AN IMPUDENT THEFT. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 26 October 1912, Page 7
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