JEWEL BURGLARY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10573, 30 September 1910, Page 4

JEWEL BURGLARY.

(Vkk I'iikss Association.) .Dunedin, Scplomher .'lO. Detectives .Mitchell anil Hunt arrested last nighl Alfred I'rior and Win. Newton on a charge of stealing at (!rovmoirth iewellerv valued at .Mill), the property of 11. AY. Lloyd. The detectives searched the accused's belongings and found a largo collection of jewellery, some of which was the properly of' Lloyd and some -stolen from Westport. Two other charges will be preferred against them. The accused recently arrived from America, but are Knglish by liirth. Thcv (Jiilv arrived at Dunedin vestorda.v. fireymoutli. September 311. So far the police here have only heard of one arrest at. Lylteltun connected with the burglary oi' Lloyd's jewellery establishment. Ditucdiii. September .''lt. In connection with the arrest for the jewellery robberies at West port, and Greymouth further particulars show that the accused are professional pugilists who work their passages to different countries. They arrived from America a month ago and went Io "Wcsipoi't, where they admit they broke into I'Yeeman's and Jacobs' shops, slealing therefrom, jewellery valued at Clll and -£15(1 respectively. After a week in ■■Westport they went to Creymotith and 'broke into Llovds' shop and stole jewellery valued at C3(l(). They sold ' some and threw n qmautily overboard, and brought the balance to Dimedin. The Inst lot. of an estimated value of CM I! I, is Lloyds' property. They had been masquerading under the' names of Burke and M'Guirc. The prisoners have made statements to the detectives admitting three robberies on the West Coast. ' i The prisoners travelled overland from the Const to Lyttelton and shipped by the Talune to Dunedin.