A PECULIAR JOKE.
SCENE IN AUCTION MART. • HANDBAG ANNEXED. ' A somewhat disconcerting' happening took place at Mr C. Leighton’s auction mart, Stratford, one day recently. During the progress of . a sale a lady laid her handbag, containing about £lO, on a couch, and when she again turned round was dismayed to find that it had disappeared. Mr Leighton, on being informed, stopped the sale, and announced the loss, but . without result, and the lady in ques-. tion went home to procure mere n.oi<ey. When, walking along the street she me', a woman who had Deen seen in . the mart previously, ani from tne handbag carried by this; person , she noticed protruding the handles of her own bag. The return of the bag was . demanded, and needless to say the demand was complied with, but it was accompanied by the explanation: "I took it for a joke and was going to ’ take it back !’’ . .
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4906, 23 November 1925, Page 2
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153A PECULIAR JOKE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4906, 23 November 1925, Page 2
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