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Shannon News, 4 August 1922, Page 3

The element of luck "enters sometimes into poi.ce work as in other vocations. This was illustrated by a prompt captive made in Auckland this week. An elderly man called ai the detective office with a complaint j that, he had just discovered that his | Post Office barik book had been stolen ! early in the month, and that the thieY had operated three times on the account to the extent, of £l3O, Detective Knight, who took the complaint, lent a sympathetic ear, and at once set off with ihe complainant for the Post Office. While he was waiting at the counter, having the matter of any further attempts to operate on the account. promptly dealt with, a. man game up to the counter and handed in a withdrawal slip for £lO on ihe very account in question. He was immediately taken in charge, and came before the Magistrate on charges relating to illegal operation on the aca#untp to ba remanded for a -tfeek,