STORY OF A £50 NOTE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3837, 28 August 1928, Page 1

STORY OF A £SO NOTE.

YOUNG MIGRANT ROBBED

By trusting an affable and welldressed stranger in Melbourne last week, Richard Bernard Korn, aged 18 years, a migrant from Great Britain, lost a £SO note which he had just withdrawn from the savings bank. In a statement to the police Korn said that he was about to go to Perth by ship. In Little Collins Street a strange man asked him the way to Russell Street. Korn said that lie did not know, and the man began a friendly conversation, in which he mentioned that he intended to travel to Perth on the same ship as Korn. The two walked along to a shop, and the stranger asked Korn to lend him the £SO to buy a present for his wife. “I will see you on the boat this afternoon,” the stranger said to Korn, “and it will be all right.” After some hesitation Korn gave him the £SO note. The stranger then handed him 3d and asked him if he would he good enough to buy a duty stamp for him. Korn crossed the street with the intention of doing so, but feeling suspicious, he stood behind a loiTy and watched the man and a companion. They appeared to be talking’. His attention was distraced for a moment, and when lie looked again the men were gone.