STOLEN JEWELS.
'The ten',’thousand! pounds’' worth of jewels which were spin©,'days ago from the LangliaTh'H'btel 'liaye' nearly all been recovered, 'and. Detective-sergearits Bex -.arid. Harris .have brought ‘about the arrest of the'valet.Theodore Bluiriej; who vanished simultaneously,'with the jewellery'.'-'- . ' “ ' ;'.
"‘The police' have''. discovered', that BlumO,’-since he, so suddenly left the, employ of Mr. and! Mrs Fred. 'Garside, the owners' of the jewels', .has.beeh'shetweriiig money right left. i His idea of enjbymdnt seems to have been to dress in ! the very-height of fashion and extravagance and'fide aboiut in cabs, paying, the astonished and delighted cabmen enormous prices for the drives. ''/ . f" i-j‘, ■■ Great as-was.-the haul' v of l jewellery made by the thief—end, a com~ : of Jaw .will shortly . inquire .. whether-' he. and Theodore Blmne are one-and the same—‘ he seems to have been in' sudh' a hurry in-grabbing the jewels 'that lie left-about £IBOO worth.in the jewel-case;* ;! Several days after-Blmne’s* disappearance- tlie .jewel-case 'was' found in the ■hotel. .It had. been'-forced; open with some, sharp instrument." In: the broken .ease Mr Garside found a very valuable unset ruby; valued at £loooi and several 1 other articles which the thief had* over,looked. .'I -- . .The police have discovered; that'Blunie has . been making ’ inquiries' at'- sliipping -offices as'- tb the-.sailing of ■ vessels to South Africa- ■ ■ --
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4319, 30 March 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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211STOLEN JEWELS. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4319, 30 March 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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