GRACIE HAS BURGLARS.
THEFT OF FUR CAPv. LONDON. Hiss Gracie Fields returned from a three-weeks' holiday at her villa in. Capri to find that her house in Fincliley Road, 'St. John's Wood, had been entered by burglars, and a fur cape worth about £100 taken. Miss Fields said: "Perhaps they were looking for jewellery. If they were, they got nowt. I had my jewellery with me, and now it's in t' bank, lad." The burglar—or one of the burglars— used a bicycle. Tyre marks were left in the kitchen and other rooms. •'Guests wipe their shoes before entering my house," said Gracie, "and if people come on bicycles I wish they would do the same with their tyres."
A railcar dispatched from Christchurch at 4 a.m. yesterday, collided with a railway trolley at Inchbonnie. Two men on the trolley jumped clear before the impact. The trolley was wrecked and the car dam ~"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 285, 1 December 1936, Page 5
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