BURGLARY AT MENINDIE.
(S.A. Register.) * For the past thirty-seven years the Hon. E G. C. Walker, M.P., has resided at "Ihe f Briars," Menindie, in fancied Becurity from the enterprising burglar ; but on Saturday he and his family had their confidence rudely disturbed by discovering that the mansion had been broken into on Friday night, and a - quantity of valuable jewellery and a Large sum of money stolen. A representative of - the Register called on Mr. Walkers who showed him over the scene of the burglar's j operations, and said :— " Early this morning my housekeeper called me, and asked if I had taken my watch down, ob it was not in its usual place. The window of my dressing- - room was open, and on examination I discovered that a gold watch, worth seventy guineaß, had disappeared, also a Waterbury ( Watoh which I keep to check the other bjr. Four of my pins were also gone, Ac" Nothing oan show better the estimation in which tho unpretentious but reliable Water-, bury is held by men of means.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 59, 10 March 1894, Page 4
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176BURGLARY AT MENINDIE. Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 59, 10 March 1894, Page 4
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