HE GOT A LITTLE

Evening Star, Issue 19061, 2 October 1925, Page 1

HE GOT A LITTLE

THE AUCKLAND RAFFLES ONE CHEQUE REPORTED GASHED [Pbe United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 2. Following the audacious theft of furniture from the residence of Mr H. P. Kissling on Monday, Mr E. Maude jeweller, has notified Arthur, Ltd., the auctioneer who bought some of the furniture from the thief for £lB, that he received Arthur’s cheque for that amount on Monday afternoon from a man who purchased jewellery, and received in change £lO.

[At present Mr and Mrs Kissling are away in Sydney on a holiday visit. A well-known firm of auctioneers received a call from a well-dressed young man, who gave out that he was Mr Kissiing’s son, and /said he wanted certain of the furniture in their residence sold off during his father’s absence. He asked that the firm would send a representative up with a motor lorry, and the things would be pointed out to him. Accordingly the firm sent up a reliable man with a motor lorry. Arriving at the house, which is quite close to the road, and has neighbors on both sides of it quite near, the auction room employee was admitted by tho young man who was impersonating Mr Kissling’s son. They went inside, and the young man led the auctioneering firm’s representative and his assistant into various rooms, and pointed out the furniture which he said was superfluous. The furniture was removed to the auction rooms and duly sold, but in the meantime the fact that Mr Kissiing’s house hud been entered had been discovered, and tho police were put on the trail. The burglar has not "yet been arrested,]