MONEY GALORE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 33, 8 February 1905, Page 5

MONEY GALORE.

; A MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB. At the Auckland Supreme Court this morning Edward Barrett, George Mack, ivnd Sydney Anderson, three actjve-looking young men, pleaded not guilty to robbing and assaulting a labourer named John Frederick Viekery ajr, ..Newmarket. Anderson was separately charged with committing the assault with intent to rob, and Barrett with stealing 18/3. The Crown Prosecutor (Hon. J. A. Tole) conducted the ca3e for the Crown, and Mr J. R. Lundon ..defended. Complainant, also a moderately young man, said he came in from the country with £25 in his pccket. He spent and gave away to companions £11 or £12 in different hotels, and left £9 18/ in the hands of an hotel porter for safe keeping. Subsequently he met the three accused men, whom he had met on a former occasion, and treated them to drinks. Barrett asked him for the loan of 5/, and got it. Subsequently he took Barrett and Mack to the Fitzroy Hotel, where they had three drinks each while dinner (which he ordered for the three) was being prepared. Before the dinners arrived he became aware of the fact that a hansom cab was waiting for him at the hotel door. He had not ordered it, nor did he remember getting into it. He realised very little of what happened at this time, but he had a hazy recollection of "coming to" near the Captain Cook Hotel sufficiently to see that he was in a hansom cab with Barrett and Anderson. Barrett was sitting at his side on the seat; Anderson waa standing in a stooping attitude in front of him. He asked "where was Mack?" and they told him he was driving.