OLD MAN ROBBED.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15865, 11 December 1923, Page 5

OLD MAN ROBBED.

A SEVERED £5 NOTE. AUCKLAND, Monday. Two halves of a torn £5 note were the principal exhibits in a Police Court case heard to-day in which Ernest Edward Cox, aged 40, was charged with the theft of £3 10s in money and a watch and chain, of a total value of £4 7s 6d. The prosecution concerned the robbing of William Jamieson, a somewhat decrepit old fellow from the Urewcra Country, who came to town, cashed his cheque, and subsequently fell a victim to a thief who took advantage of him in a public convenience at the top of Durham Street. Jamieson narrated how he was seized and robbed. A £5 note was severed In the struggle, and accused subsequently tendered half of il in payment l’or drinks at a city hotel. Upon being interviewed by the police Cox stated another man named Braslin had given him the half-note. This Braslin. who was called as a witness, indignantly denied, and stated that Cox was endeavouring to implicate him in order to “ get even ” for a little difference they had previously had. Accused denied the theft, and said he could bring witnesses to prove he was elsewhere at the time the offence was committed.

Remarking that the case looked pretty black for Cox, Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., adjourned the case till Wednesday in order that accused might bring his witnesses.