LOSS OF JEWELS
DRUGGED t H OCX) L A TES
THEFT IN TAXI ALLEGED
R EM. ARK ABLE STORY
CY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Feb. IS, 9.5 a.m. LONDON. Feb. 17.
Captain Breadon. a civil engineer, wlio states that lie was formerly State engineer at Kashmir and subsequently
: pent years in Australia, told the police a remarkable' story. Captain Breadon was picked up in an tuiconseioti - condition at V\ hetsone. When he recovered he declared that he had left Australia at the outbreak of the war and returned to India and obtained a position on the Munitions Board. During the course of his stay in India, lie bought twenty pearl necklaces, ten. bags of rubies, and six cut diamonds ol a total value ol £11,(100. Accompanied by a nephew and a partner of a llat.ton Garden firm with which he was negotiating the sale ol the gems, he entered a iaxi-c-ab. Another man known to the gem merchant joined them, and gave them chocolates. Captain Breadon alleged that his chocolate _wa<s drugged, for after eating it. he remembered nothing for forty-eight hours. When he woke up in hospital the jewels were missing. —•Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 February 1925, Page 7
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194LOSS OF JEWELS Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 February 1925, Page 7
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