£22,000 VANISHES

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17412, 26 May 1928, Page 7

£22,000 VANISHES

DAUGHTER CHARGED,

PARENT'S INCOHERENT STORY. 1 - I CASE DISMISSED. >,! (By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Received May 26, 10.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 26. Mrs Pearl Cressy, a married woman was charged In the Caulfield Court with stealing bank notes valued at £22,000 the property of her mother, Mrs Gertrude Palmer, who gave her evidence roluctanly and somwhat Incoherently. She said her daughter advised her to convert Government bond* valued at £22,000 Into cash and re-tnvest it In mortgages at eight per cent, which was a better proposition. The mother acquiesced in the proposal and the cash was brought homo and hidden in a sofa and gas stove. The following, morning the daughter, Mrs Cressy, rose earlier, much earlier, than usual, rushed Into her mother’s room and exclaimed that the money had boon stolen. The daughter thereafter appeared to be In opulent circumstances. She bought a car, dressed expensively, and offered to take her mother on a trip to England. The case was dismissed.