ALMOST INCREDIBLE

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14771, 10 October 1921, Page 2

ALMOST INCREDIBLE

a TALE OF STOLEN BANK NOTES. "This is an almost ■ incredible story," said Sheriff Orr at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, on August -I. in ordering an 1 l-yenr-olfl hoy, named Samuel Laing, residing at 6i, Tennant Street. Leith, to receive 10 stripes with the bin'll rod. The hoy admitted having stolen ‘tob !Os from a baker’s shop in Albert Street, l.eilh. The Fiscal slated Hint the money belonged lo a commercial traveller Mho had called at the shop. He placed a wallet containing Stop lOs on the- counter, as lie had occasion to go out io the street to ins motor car. la his brief absence from the simp, the accused, who had been standing at the counter, opened the wallet and abstracted the money, comprising live £lO notes, nine £ I notes, and a Treasury note for 10s. It was not until bate in the evening that Hie owner discovered Hie theft. Picture Mouse “Scene.” Meanwhile the accused had made off with the money, and later I hat day he and a number of companions were in a. picture-house, when a cry was raised that a woman’s pocket had Jjeen picked. The picture-house manager I hereupon requested that all the boys in the vicinity of the woman should be searched. The accused, who was one 'of the hoys, was seen to crawl down below the seats and to empty his ■■pockets of notes. These, when picked up. amounted to £8 I Os. Questioned as to where he got them, tile accused eventually admitted that he had stolen them from the Shop ’in'Albert Street. Asked what lie had dene with Hm £lO notes, he replied Hint he had torn up one of them in a yard in Lei Hi. The police, on searching Hie yard, found pieces of a bank note. The other four £lO notes the boy said he had lorn up and put them down a street sewer.’ On search being made in the sewer no trace of them could be found.