JEWELLERY ROBBERY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 50, 13 October 1911, Page 5

JEWELLERY ROBBERY.

ARRIVAL OF SUSPECTS FROM AMERICA. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, October 12. William and Maud Rogers, who are suspected of stealing jewellery from Kohn’s shop in Queen Street, Auckland, on March 18th last, arrived by the Moana to-day in charge of Detective Scott, of Auckland. William Rogers arrived in California from Hongkong, whence he had apparently gone via Sydney from Auckland in April. Maud Rogers arrived two days later, and the police’s suspicions were aroused by the sudden inundation of jewellery in two pawnbrokers’ shops. Early on the morning of May 4, Rogers was arrested, and in the evening his wife was also taken into custody. Both were charged with smuggling £IOQO worth of stolen property Into the State. A good deal of the stolen property was recovered from pawnshops and a room at Winchester Hotel, which they had engaged. Rogers and his wife refused to discuss the affair, but when confronted with various articles recovered, admitted having gone to ’Frisco from Sydney. Most of the jewellery recovered was marked “Kohn,’ ’but Rogers declared that it belonged to a brother in England.