APRONFUL OF JEWELS FROM A FLOWER-BED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3030, 17 March 1917, Page 14

APRONFUL OF JEWELS FROM A FLOWER-BED

£1-500 OF BUKGLAR'S BOOTY. One of the gardeners employed by the Kingston Corporation on tho Canbury Riverside Promenade had a strange experience recently. After digging up several flower-beds for the winter ho went to another on the lawn at'thn lower end of the promenade, and while working there -was amazed to find several gold rings and gold bracelets among the earth turned up by his spade. Sinking the spade again in tho ground, ho unearthed more jewellery, and a third and a fourth time the same thing happened. Then he called ono of the other gardeners, and the two of them in a short time brought to the surface seme two or three hundred articles of jewellery, all in gold, consisting of nold matches, expanding wristlet watches, fin.oier-rings, "ar-rings, shirt studs, slrc-ve links, albert and neck chains, and other articles, some of them set with diamonds and other precious stones, the whole beini; sufficient to fill the apron of one of the men. The police afterwards sifted tho earth and succeeded in recovering several smaller articles. Later in the day the jewellery was identified n? tl'j't stolen from the premises of My. W. C. Spikins, jeweller, of Thames Kltw*. Kingston, which were broken into h v burglars in tho e.-.r'.y hours of Xovembor 30.