CAPTURE OF JEWELLERY ROBBERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 247, 20 October 1886, Page 5

CAPTURE OF JEWELLERY ROBBERS.

A daring robbery of jewellery was committed at the shop of Mr Philip BlashUi, Bourke-street East, on Friday morning last, and a very clever arrest was made the following morning. The police arrested .several suspects for vagrancy, and on clues obtained from them proceeded to tho Albion ilotel, Chapelstreet, Prahran, and asked it a man named Omond was in the house In a small singlo bedded room upstai.-a Omond was found asleep.), Rudely awakonod by a loud knocking nt the do>r before (i o'clock, ho demanded to know the cause of tho intrusion. Whon taxed with having bought on the previous day several gold chains, seeing the uselessness of a denial, ho admitted the purchase, and ono of the detectives raising the mattross of the bed the stolen jowellery was revealed. Twenty-two gold chains and eight silver bracelets belonging to Mr Blaehki were discovered in the bed. Omond was found wearing a watch and chain, which one of the officers recognised as part of tbe proceeds ot a robbery committed at the Otago Hotol, Flinders-street, on the sth instant, when a seaman named John Anderson was robbed of a watch and a ring. Whilst three of tho detectives were searching Omond's bedroom upstairs, another was examining the premises down stairs. From a box underneath the bar counter Carter produced one go'r) and five silver watches, together with other jewellery, all of which wai a portion of tho Btolen property.