MISCELLANEOUS.
Pledging bank notes seems a peculiar way of " raising the wind." According to recent evidence given before the Select Commitee on Stolen Goods, Mr Howard Vincent, director of criminal investigations, gave numerous examples of the strange practice among some pawnkrokers of taking Bank of England notes in pledge. In one case twenty notes were pawned by one man a convicted thief and receiver. A London pawnbroker's manager admitted having taken in pledge from one individual two notes for £100 each, one for £50, and four for £5 each, advancing upon the whole £1 only. The explanation was that the customer had volunteered the statement that he merely desired to place them temporarily in safe keeping. As a fact, those notes were the produce of a robbery.
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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1052, 22 February 1882, Page 2
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127MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1052, 22 February 1882, Page 2
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