THIEVING RAT
STEALS DIAMOND RING CONSTABLE'S PERSPICACITY ADELAIDE, May' 13. The disappearance of a valuable diamond ring from a dressing table in a room while a woman was sleeping one night puzzled the police until ti strange clue developed. On another night, while tho owner of the ring, Mrs. Maud Thorn, of Main North road, Sef'ton Bark, was asleep, a reel of cotton also disappeared from the dressing table. Next morning it was found that a trail of cotton led from a work basket on the dressing table into another room, where tho cotton had been entangled around the legs of a sideboard. This led Constable F. C. Nen-kc to believe that a rat had taken the ring. Floor boards in the bedroom were pulled up, and a torch showed the diamond glistening among a cluster of small pieces of glass and clothing, u few t'oel from the wall, where they had evidently boon taken by a rat.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 13
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158THIEVING RAT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 13
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