09/25/1927
Pickpockets attracted by the Charles Lindbergh crowds are blamed by the police for the loss of $ 1,353 by Pablicto Chavira, 15, messenger boy for Francisco Trejo, 106 Juarez avenue. Juarez money broker, to whom the money belonged. The boy was accompanied by Jose Delgado, 17.
The money was lost or stolen almost at the doors of the first National bank, from which it had just been drawn.
The loss was reported to Captain of Detectives L.T. Robey, who with Sandy Anderson made an investigation.
“Young Chavira told me that he got the money at the bank about noon,” said Capt. Robey last night. “There he went to one of the counters and counted it over, putting it in a wallet in the coat inside pocket, in the wallet was his passport. He kept his hand on the wallet.
“Just as he was going through the door, he says, he tripped and fell. Three Americans were about him at the time. One of them stumbled over him. He got to his feet. A Moment later he missed the money with his passport. It looks as if the three men were pickpockets who had ‘ganged up’ on him, one of them tripping him up.”
The money was in 10 $100 bills, seven $59 bills and three $1 bills. Trejo called at police headquarters later and told Capt. Robey that he had confidence in the boys and believed they had been robbed.
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