BURGLARY AT MENINDIE.
t (S.A. Register.) (•'or tho past thirty seven years the Hon. > C. C. Walker, M.P., has resided at "Tho Kriars," Menindio, in fancied security from ' tho onterprisincr burglar ; but on Saturday ■ lie and his family had their confidence rudoly f disturbed by discovering that the mansion > had boon broken into on Friday night, and a > quantity of valuable jewellery and a large ' sum of money stolen. A representative of ' tho Register called on Mr. Walker, who .showed him over the scene of the burglar's operations, and said :— " Korly this morning my housekeeper called me, and asked if I had taken my watoh down, aB it was not in its usual place. The window of my dreasing- . room was open, and on examination I discovered that a gold watch, worth seventy guineas, had disappeared, also a Waterbury Watoh whioh I keep to cLeck the other by. i Pour of my pin« w«*ri> .Jao gone, &o." l Nothing oan show better the estimation in which tho unpretentious but reliable Water1 Imry is held by men of means.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 85, 11 April 1894, Page 4
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178BURGLARY AT MENINDIE. Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 85, 11 April 1894, Page 4
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