ROBBERY AT MOUNT EDEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12608, 24 June 1904, Page 5

ROBBERY AT MOUNT EDEN.

ipgg police, have received, information of a lob Way ■ **'• *■"•'residww* of Mr. R. Laird, il^i^tiT-street, Mount Eden Road, which was oHniitted on Sunday. Mrs. Laird left-the )*lf*SuM on" Sunday afternoon, With her'two **£ children,' : "id wlte.V she returned in the I '•;■.■ getting she ,ieard a scuffle in the- house," m i retreating footsteps followed in the msMge leading from the back to the front •■{.;';■■■■ Mttfeli. • She was considerably alarmed, aad hesitated for a- time to enter the house, tfmxflii she did she found the place turned npsidfl J down, drawers ransacked, boxes : : . 'forced open, and a considerable amount ot damage done. Mrs. Laird estimates the loss of jewellery vas considerable—£3o in!HsJ;t'jt' but some other jewellery and some money was undiscovered by the thief— a is believed the whole business was the work of one man, who so "far appears to }jfft c.Hided the police. Mrs. Laird was jiving . from Mary-street, and Borne of the gjosfc valuable of her property was packed j» a crate, which appeared to have escaped & 9 attention of the thief. 1 LL ''■.'-■' ■""