BIG ROBBERY
ARRESTS MADE. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. Perth, Feb. 16. The robbery of £9852 in bank notes has been sensationally solved. A detective learned that Bert Leighton, an actor of the Hawkey Company, was lavishly buying jewellery and spending fifty ten-pound notes in this way. Leighton was arrested, and a search of his room revealed six thousand pounds’ worth of missing notes in his trunk.
McLagan, the missing bank clerk, was shortly afterwards arrested. He displayed the utmost anxiety to make restoration, and informed the police that a thousand pounds was hidden under the tower of the Hotel Cecil, where he was staying. He admitted he got into debt at Kalgoorlie, while trying to live up to his position on £l7O a year. The temptation of handling such a lot of money at one time proved too strong for him. No indication is given as to how Leighton came to have the bulk of the money.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 828, 17 February 1903, Page 2
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