VERY POLITE
THIEF SPOKE TO HOSTESS MELBOURNE, January 11. While a party was in progress at the home of Mrs A. W. Watkins, in Balaclava road, Caulfield, last night, a thief mingled with the guests, was spoken to by the hostess, and while a young man w r as singing ‘ The Rose of Tralee ’ crept upstairs to a bedroom and made a selection of the diamond rings in a jewel He was heard hy Miss Vera Watkins, who went to investigate. _ The man dived through a window into a huge tree fern, and fell into a shrubbery 18ft below. Mrs Watkins’s bag, which had contained £l2, was found on a vacant allotment. A gold watch and three rings were sfglen from the jewel casket.
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Evening Star, Issue 21628, 25 January 1934, Page 11
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124VERY POLITE Evening Star, Issue 21628, 25 January 1934, Page 11
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