THEFT OF JEWELLERY
PLATE GLASS WINDOW BROKEN DETECTIVE’S SMART WORK New Plymouth, June 24. The plate glass window front of the jeweller's shop of Virtue Dalgleish was found broken by a constable. about three o’clock this morning. Some jewellery was obviously missing A short time previously a constable and a night-watchman had seen a man nearby. Detective Meiklejohn visited various boardinghouses and eventually arrested a man who gave the name of Horatio Martiner, aged 40, a native of Argentina. A search of the clothing in the room he occupied with 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 was £5l 13'-. The whole value of the goods taken, it is believed, have been recovered. In the same window, divided onlv by a glass partition, was much valuable jewellery, which appeared to be untouched.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 7
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166THEFT OF JEWELLERY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 7
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