EVER A THIEF.
The Melbourne Leader says :—The strength of the ruling passion, especially when it happens to be animus fartindi, was very curiously exemplified a short time ago. A man who had just been discharged from Pentridge called at a certain bank in Collins street, and laid claim to a large sum of money which had been standing to his credit for fifteen years. His signature was quite correct, his statement as to the date of the deposit was correct, and the only tiling remaining was his identification, for which an appointment was made on the following morning. The next day the ex-convict would have been the possessor of several thousand pounds. But he could not keep out of mischief • that very night the cx-convict took part iu a burglary, was arrested early the next morning, and was very soon sent back to his old quarters. Meanwhile the bank still continues to retain several thousand pounds to which it has no claim whatever.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1223, 27 October 1874, Page 4
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164EVER A THIEF. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1223, 27 October 1874, Page 4
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