THIEF WAS ROUTED.
FOUND IN CHURCH. GRABBED COMMUNION SET. * WESTON-SL'PEE-MARE. May 22. f A man who tried ti> .-teal a silver j Communion set from a church :ierc lie! (j in alarm when a woman lie liad knocked I down threw a chair at him. H<" Je«pt _ j over the churchyard wall and vanished. The scene of this drama was St. luu>- - lChurch. Milton, a suburb of We-Ton. it | was Mrs. Elsie Robinson, wife of a s retired insurance official, of Hill ( re-t. r. <Jrove Koad, Milton, who route,! the thief. i "When I went t" arrange flower- for i the services, ,-he said. I saw an ofTer- > i tory box had lieen forced open, r "In the vestry I -aw a man takinj thing- from a cupboard. When I told i him to clear out he knocked me down, i! "As T got up. the man gralil»ed a solid • silver Communion set and was making | for the door, when I picked up a chair iand rushed at him. : "This semed to surprise him. He J dropped the silver and ran away."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 140, 15 June 1937, Page 5
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182THIEF WAS ROUTED. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 140, 15 June 1937, Page 5
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