BURGLARY AT MENINDIE.
(S.A. Register.) For the past thirty-seven years the Hon. G. C. Walter, M.P., has resided at “ The Briars,” Menindie, in fancied security from the enterprising burglar ; but on Saturday he and his family had their confidence rudely disturbed by discovering that the mansion had been broken into on Friday night, and a quantity of valuable jewellery and a large sum in money stolen. A representative of the Register called on Mr Walker, who showed him over the scene of the burglar’s operations, and said:—“ Early this morning my housekeeper called me, and asked if I had taken my watch down, as it was not in its usual place. The window of my dressing room was open, and on examination I discovered that a gold watch, worth seventy guineas, had disappeared, also a Waterbury Watch which I keep to check the other by. Four of my pins were also gone &c.” Nothing can show better the estimation in which the unpretentious reliable Waterbury is held by men of means.
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Southland Times, Issue 12769, 30 November 1893, Page 3
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171BURGLARY AT MENINDIE. Southland Times, Issue 12769, 30 November 1893, Page 3
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