TALKED OF HOME.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4847, 1 July 1925, Page 3

TALKED OF HOME.

CONFIDENCE IN A STILVNGER. COST HIS FATHER £2OO. William Tyrrwliitt Drake, of Bedford, England, who went to Australia some months ago for experince, is sorry that lie confided in a stranger he met in the lounge of the Hotel Australia, Sydney, early in March. His meeting, it- is alleged, cost his father £2OO. .

But Drake was much impressed with the man', who got him to speak about his home and people. Drake left Sydney later in the month and. went to Claremont Downs, Queensland, where he worked on a station a jackereo. He was greatly surprised to receive a letter fr,om his father asking why he had cabled home for £2OO. • The visitor had not cabled for the money, but £2OO had been sent- to him to .the Commonwealth Bank, and taken out in his name.

The police found that a man who said , his name was Drake had called at the bank, and the -money was paid to him. The bank officials had asked the man. if he could show that he really was Drake. The man did so bringing a Sydney solicitor to the bank to establish his identity! He had met the solicitor a day or so before, the police say, and told him his name was Drake. Detective-Sergeant Anderson and Detective. Geldart visited a house ift Woollahra and arrested and charged a man. I ater Edward Leslie Rankin Montgomery : De-Courtney Mollison was charged at the Central. Police Court with fhlse pretences. He was remanded for eight days.