TWO STOLEN DAGGERS.
RETURNED BY THE THIEF. / "TAKEN AS A PRANK." There was considerable alarm at Newcastle, Now South Wales, recently, when it was discovered that two daggers, both perfect examples of Chinese workmanship, were missing from Professor Sadler's university collection of Eastern art, which had been on exhibition in a hall. Beautifully and fantastically designed, the daggers, although of tittle intrinsic worth, would be valued by a connoisseur at hundreds of pounds. Apart from their antiquity, they are regarded as unique specimens of the period to which they belong. The police were at once communicated with, and a search of district pawnshops was made, but without success. However, the daggers had been appropriated by a pei son apparently without criminal intentions, for subsequently they were found neatly and carefully wrapped up on the step of a police station. Enclosed was a note stating that the person who had taken them had done so more or less as a prank, and without any idea of their real value. The trouble which had been caused tfas sincerely and deeply regretted, he 6aid.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 12
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181TWO STOLEN DAGGERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 12
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