AFTER TWELVE MONTHS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14819, 24 October 1911, Page 8

AFTER TWELVE MONTHS.

STOLEN HAMPER DISCOVERED. [BT TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Monday. On October 3 of last year a commercial traveller's hamper, containing a valuable quantity of sample leather, was booked from Auckland by Messrs. Warnock Bros., to Dunedin to catch their traveller in the latter city, but it never reached there. A thorough search was made throughout the Dominion by the New Zealand Express Company and tho Union Steam Ship Company, but no trace of it could be found. Ultimately, the Union Company paid the claim, which came to about £47. Recently the hamper was located in a house at Newtown. Almost the whole of the stolen goods were recovered, the value amounting to about £43 or £44.

The hamper, it appears, found its way into the cellar of certain premises in the city, but how it got there cannot at present be explained. All that is known is that it was handed out somewhere by the caretaker of the cellar to an expressman who, with his brother, either took delivery or arranged for delivery with, it is alleged, the object of disposing of the contents. The goods remained in the possession of the expressman until their discovery by the police. Information has been issued against the caretaker of the cellar, and the case has been fixed for hearing on November 1.