BURGLARY AT MENINDIE.
(B.A. Register.) For the past thirty wven yeara the Hod. G. C. Walker, M.P., has re«di-d at The Briars " Menindi*, in fancied security from the enterprising burglar ; but on Saturday he and his familr hod 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 ,sa of money stolen. A representative of the Register called on Mr. Walker, who showed him over the ecene of the burglar s operations, and mid :-" Karly this nu.rn.DK my bonsekeep*r called me, and aakel if I had token my watch down, aa it was not in its usual place. The window of my dressmg100m was open, and on examination I disoovered that a. *old watch, worth seven^ | Knincaa, had disappeared »Ipo a Watorbury Wtch -which I Vcop to check the other by. Fonr of my pins were aiao gone, *o. Nothing can show better the estimation m which flic unpretentious but reliable Waterbury is held by men of means.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 86, 12 April 1894, Page 4
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173BURGLARY AT MENINDIE. Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 86, 12 April 1894, Page 4
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