MISSING JEWELS

Southland Times, Issue 22491, 28 January 1935, Page 7

MISSING JEWELS

MYSTERY ON MONTEREY DETECTIVES CARRY OUT INVESTIGATION NO TRACE » (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, January 26. The disappearance of valuable jewellery from a cabin on the Matson liner Monterey while the liner was approaching Pago Pago on January 15 was investigated by detectives on the arrival of the vessel at Auckland yesterday. The jewellery, which belongs to Mrs Thorold Fink, of Melbourne, a through passenger, consists of three rings and a brooch valued at about £440. The loss of the jewellery was reported to the purser not long before the Monterey reached Pago Pago. Mrs Fink is travelling alone. The rings and the brooch had been placed in a drawer of the cabin dressing table which was not locked, and they had disappeared the following morning. A careful inquiry into the incident was conducted by the captain and the purser of the Monterey. The most valuable piece is the brooch, which is of platinum, and has 17 diamonds in the setting. It is valued at £lBO. One of the rings, set with sapphires and diamonds, is worth £l6O and another, a diamond cluster, £lOO, while the third is only a nominal value. No trace of the missing jewellery had been found when the liner sailed for Sydney early in the evening.