THEFT FROM TENNIS PLAYER.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1929, Page 2

THEFT FROM TENNIS PLAYER.

HOW ANDREWS LOST HIS TRUNK. PALMERSTON NORTH, May 8. In a letter to his mother., who resides in Palmerston North, Mr E. D. Andrews, the New Zealand tennis player, gives an account that all he was loft with was a .pair of plus-fours, an odd shirt, a pair of grey trousers, and some shoes. The loss of the goods, which wore only partly insured, will be a heavy loss to* Air Andrews, and many of the goods' last had a sentimental value. “As I was going away from London for sonic weeks,” lie writes, “I had packed all my things in my huge cabin trunk—all my suitings, everything that I would Avant, including private correspondence, snapshots that I liad collected, and a hundred other things,” states the letter. “The trunk took a friend and me all our time to lift into the back of the car, it Avas so heavy. Wc had gone into London and Avero just off Hyde Park —a. busy thoroughfare—and had called in to say good-bye to a Cambridge friend of mine. We Avere absent about five to seven minutes, and Avhen aa’o returned the trunk had gone. Tlie car had been standing right in front of the door and avg hadn’t heard a sound, but there Avere the Avhecl marks Avhere another’ car had come along. Tlie thieves had whipped out, transferred the trunk, and raced off at great speed. Wc had Scotland Yard on their tracks Avithin 10 or 15 minutes, hut no trace could he found, unci there is little chance of recovery no Ay.”