ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES.
AN AOTOB ARBKBTED. FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Perth, February 16. The robbery of notes has been solved in a secsitional manner. The detectives learned that Bert Leighton, an actor in the Hawirey Company, had been lavishly buying jewellery, spending fifty £lO notes in this way. Leighton was arrested, and a search of his roun revealed £6OOO worth of the missing notes iu a trunk. Mc Logan, the missing bank clerk, was shortly after arrested. He displayed the utmost anxiety to make restoration, and informed the police that £IOOO worth of notes were hidden under tin tower of the Hotel Cecil, where he had been staying. He admitted that he had got into debt at Kalgoorlio while trying to live up to bis position on £l7O a year. The temptation of hind ling such a lot of money at one time proved too strong for him. No indication is given as to how Leighton came to hive the bulk of tho notes.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 42, 17 February 1903, Page 3
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164ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 42, 17 February 1903, Page 3
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