RIFLED HOTEL CASH REGISTER
JUMPED OVER THE BAR TWO MEN IMPRISONED [ Per Pi-ess Association.] WELLINGTON, Jan. 3. Stated by the police to have jumped across the bar of the Pier Hotel at closing time on New Year's Eve, opened the cash register and taken out a handful of notes and handed them to a man on the other side of the counter, Henry Long, aged 30, cook, and Ernest Sheridan, aged 24, seaman, were given six months’ hard labour. They were arrested in the street and put in a taxi. When searched at the police station Sheridan was found to have two fl notes and Long nothing, but a search of the taxi revealed five fl notes under a cushion where Long had sat. Earlier in the day Long had asked Constable Leppein for sixpence, saying he was “broke."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 2, 4 January 1939, Page 7
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139RIFLED HOTEL CASH REGISTER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 2, 4 January 1939, Page 7
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