ALLEGED THEFT
QUICK WORK. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 23. An official of a company playing at the Opera House placed a bag containing <£24-o—the night’s takings—on a piano on the stage on Saturday night, while conversing with members of the company. Turning his back for a moment it disappeared. Yesterday a constable noticed two men drinking whiskey in the street, and money changing hands. Suspecting sly grog-selling, he arrested them, and when searched £2OO was found on Henry Silk, a stage mechanic at the Opera House, and £6 on the other. The police were already looking for Silk, who will be charged with the theft-
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160735, 23 August 1920, Page 9
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107ALLEGED THEFT Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160735, 23 August 1920, Page 9
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