JEWELLERS ROBBED
— NEW PLYMOUTH ARREST. . (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 24. The plate-glass window front of the jeweller’s shop of Virtue and Dalgleish was found broken, by a constable about three o’dock this morning Some of the jewellery was missing. A short time previously the night-watchman and the constable had seen a man nearby. Detective Meiklejohn later visited various boardinghouses, and he eventually arrested a man who gave the name of Horatio Mortimer. He is 40 years of age, and a native of the Argentine. A search of’ clothing in the room he occupied witfli another man revealed two pairs of opera glasses and four strings of pearls. As the result of further inquiries the detective found in another place four pairs of binoculars and one pair of opera glasses. The total value of the goods is £5l 13s. The whole of the goods taken, it is believed, have been recovered. In .the same window, divided only by a glass partition’ was much valuable jewellery, which appeared to be untouched.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1928, Page 3
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