DARING THEFT

Inangahua Times, 5 July 1934, Page 2

DARING THEFT

JEWELLERY STOLEN. ALSO GOLD CUPS. (United Press Assn.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. A daring burglary, committed early in tie evening, at the home of Mrs W. R. Swectapple, in New Market, resulted in the theft of jewellery and three gold cups, valued at nearly £BOO. The articles were taken from rooms at the front of tie house and there were no indications of any disturb ance in tie remainder of tie premises, tie assumption being that tie thifcves were disturbed in tie course of the robbery.

Entry was gained, evidently "by means of an open fanlight above the window of a front bedroom. It is thought the window coni d have been opened easily enough and that it was closed once the intruders were inside the house. As the. residence is somewhat below the level of the road, it would have been possible for the thieves to have ;ntered the house in that way, without much risk of being seen, especially if the theft were committed about dusk. No one was home after 4 p.m. The discovery of the theft was made at 7.30, when Mr Sweetapple and his ne.phew reached the house from the city. The house was at once seen to be i n a state of disorder and the absence of three gold cups, representing successes Mrs Sweetapple had secured at trotting, was noticed at once. The cups ordinarily occupied a place in a sitting room. Wooden stands of two of the cups had ben discarded by the. thieves and had been flung aside carelessly. The stand of the third cup was affixed firmly to the trophy. The cups are valued at some £2OO and are fine examples of goldsmith’s art. Two of them were won at Waikato meetings' by Torpedo Huon and Great Change, and the third was won at Hawke’s Bay by Arachne. When Mrs Sweetapple reached her home, she was able to g-v? partfcu a - R of the quantity of valuable jewellery •which was missing from the bedroom.