Sensational Bank Robbery.
AN ACTOR IMPLICATED. The robbery of notes at Perth was sensationally solved. The detectives learned that Bert Leighton, an actor with the Hawtery Company, w.ak lavishly buying jewellery and spending fifty and ten pound notes. This way Leighton was arrested. A search of his room revealed six thousand pounds worth of missing notes in his trunk. MoLagan, the bank clerk, was shortly after arrested. He displayed the utmost anxiety to make restoration. He informed the police that a thousand pounds was hidden under the tower of the Hotel Cecil, where he was staying. Ho admitted he gob into debt at Kalgoorlie while trying to live up to his position on £l7O per year.' The temptation of handling such a lot of money at one time proved too strong for him. No indication was given as to haw Leighton came to have the bulk of the money.
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Manawatu Herald, 17 February 1903, Page 2
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149Sensational Bank Robbery. Manawatu Herald, 17 February 1903, Page 2
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