THEFT OF JEWELS AND FURS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25092, 25 January 1947, Page 8

THEFT OF JEWELS AND FURS

CANADIAN POLICE NOT NOTIFIED ? (N.Z. ‘Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) MONTREAL. Jan. 23. The police have not been notified of the reported theft of more than 6000 dollars worth of jewels and furs owned by an Aucklander, Mrs LloydJones. Customs officers at Victoria report: that the luggage arrived in the steamer Flyaway on October 5, and was held there some time. Some luggage was railed to Mrs Lloyd-Jones’s daughter in Washington, and the balance was sent in bond to Vancouver and subsequently shipped to New Zealand. It had been presumed in Auckland that the valuables were stolen from the Flyaway. Detectives in New Zealand and Canada were reported from Auckland yesterday to be engaged in tracing thieves who stole expensive articles of clothing and jewellery from the luggage of an Auckland woman and her daughter, who recently 1 avelled to the United States, where the daughter married a Navy lieutenant. The property. is conservatively valued nt £l6OO.

The victims of the theft are Mrs Louise Lloyd-Jones, of O’Neill’s avenue, Takapuna, and her daughter, Mary, npw Mrs James Grant, of Norfolk. Virginia. The missing property, which • was packed in two wardrobe trunks and a large hatbox reinforced with steel, included a mink coat valued at t £looo belonging to Mrs Grant, and a white Russian ermine cape worth £5OO. belonging to her mother. The jewellery stolen included a jade'; necklace with a diamond cluster, valued at £6O. and a lalique necklace worth £lO. Little of the luggage wo insured. ——— w