A JEWELLERY ROBBERY

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 6916, 26 January 1901, Page 4

A JEWELLERY ROBBERY

HOUSEBREAKING IN CHRIST-

CHURCH,

Late on Sunday night tho police received information; that the residence of Mrs S. A. Clarksdn. in Park Road; Linwood, had been' burglariously entered, and that jewellery to the value of over £60 had been stoled. The stolen included two gold watches, five gold brooches, three ?goiri rings and two diamonds, the'.-fdtal value of which is assessed at £66. ' The house had been entered by the back window, and the various articles enumerated had been taken from chests of drawers in the bedroonmipstairs. Every room in the house was found to have been ransacked in the search for plunder when the inmates returned home after church. Mr Ernest Clarkson had seen a man hanging about the place during the early part of Sunday evening, and seeing the same man in High-street between seven and eight o'clock last evening, ho arranged with someone to communicate with the police while he kept the man in view. In a very short time Detectives Cassells, Fahey and Livingstone appeared on the scene, and met Clarkson at the corner of Manchester and Tuam-streets. He informed them that the man had gone down Manchester-street towards the railway station, and gave them a hurried description of him. Dotective Cassells and Fahey immediately, gave chase on bicycles, and Fahey, who was riding at a very smart pace, overtook the man ju3t opposite Holmes's boardinghouse, bud was unable to bring his machine up before the suspect had caught sight of him, anijiad turned and run back up ManehoTOr-street. Cassells, who was following, seeing the man turn, immediately followed him. At the corner of St. Asaph and Manchester streets the fugitive was' met by young ClarKson, who had followed on foot, but got past. Clarkson followed him down St. Asaph-street, calling out " Stop thief I" and a large crowd quickly joined in the chase, which at this stage became very exciting. As Clarkson is a fairly athletic young fellow, he succeeded in getting ahead of the pursued, who came towards him in a threatening attitude. Clarkson brandished a stick, and the fugitive put his hand round to. his hip pocket as if to draw a revolver, and at the same time threw a parcel over the fence into a neighbouring garden. At this moment Detective Casselh, who had come up on his bicycle, jumped off his machine, rushed at the man, and held him until the arrival of Detectives Fahey and Livingstone, when ho was secured and taken to the lock-up. The parcel was afterwards recovered, and was found to contain the missing jewellery. It has been ascertained that the man only arrived from Wellington by Sunday's steamer, and it is suspected that he has accomplices in the matter. — Lyttelton Times.