WOMAN CHARGED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 224, 20 September 1940, Page 5

WOMAN CHARGED

THEFT FROM FATHER. £5000 IN NOTES INVOLVED. (By Air.) SYDNEY, September 18. Charged with having stolen £5000 from her father at Syduey between September 5 and October 23 last year, Alice Ross, 26, was committed for trial at the Central Police Court this week on bail of £500. She had been brought under police escort to Sydney from Adelaide, where she had gone. Detective GUmore, giving evidence of this, said that on the journey he asked her what she had done with the money belonging to her father, which she had put in a Sydney safe deposit. She replied:

"My father would not consent to my marrying Freddy, so I decided to go away with him, and before I went I took money out ot the safe deposit. I left £200 with my brother Harry, £100 for my sister, and the rest of the money I left on the top of the piano in the houee, with some jewellery. I later sent a letter from a friend of mine to tell dadda where the money was." Detective Gilmore added that he now knew that the defendant had married Frederick Allen.

To Mr. Webb (for defendant) the detective said the father had told him he had received the money from his son. The son was in trouble over a divorce matter, and was in Long Bay gaol over a writ of attachment. Mr. Webb: Did the father tell you he ;had given the money to the daughter to bide, as if the son couJd prove be had no means he might get out of the writ of attachment?— No.

Robert Ross, of Lilyfield, said that in September, 1939. he and his daughter went to the safe deposit, taking £5000 in £10 notes. The money was his. It had lx>en given to him by hi» son. He told his daughter to put it in the vault ;for him, and agreed to her putting it in 'the =afe deposit in the name of Alice Steadman. She gave him a sealed [envelope and a receipt upon returning from the vault. He put these in a vest pocket, and did not look for them again until one Sunday. He found *^" k <*>*l broke*.