PICKPOCKETS AT WORK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2194, 26 October 1920, Page 3

PICKPOCKETS AT WORK.

SCENES OX THE I.’ACECOVIiSE

i JIE .MISSINC KOLB OF NOTES

The Mecca of the pickpocket is where crowds etui a racecourse is one ol‘ (he places where he is generally in evidence. On Saturday there was evidently n hand id' thieves present at .1 renihain. as a number of neivmis had I heir pockets rilled, ll is n>ual lm racegoers to erowd m Ironl <d tin. lolalisalor Vo watch tlit* machine ree'islcr the investments, and it is there the thieves make (heir hauls. An aggressive individual rudely pushes a spectator, and possibly treads on his toes. He is remonstrated with, and during the argument a second thief operates. Subsequently the spectator realises that he has been robbed, and leaves the course a sadder but wiser man. On Saturday considerable amusement was occasioned by a notice being displayed to the effect that a roll of notes had been.lost, and the tinder was asked to return the money t 0 the secretary's office. Needless to say, the money was not recovered. it was a I’etone business man who had lost the notes. While watching a race from the stand, an excited individual jostled him. .Later he discovered that all his money had vanished. The sum stolen was a comparatively large. one. There were other eases of theft reported, and the police were successful in arresting - one man who had been under suspicion.

RACECOURSE INCTDENT. ALLEGED THIEF REMANDED. 'While standing in front of the lotalisator at the Trentham racecourse on Saturday, contemplating which horse he would invest his monev on, a speculator was suddenly relieved of £3 in notes, which he was holding in his hand. The theft was noticed, and the police arrested a man named Andrew Burns Begg Summerville, who was charged "with the offence before Mr F. KHunt, SAL, in the Wellington .Magistrate’s Court yesterday. . The police wore not prepared to go on with the case, so the accused was remanded until to-morrov,