STORY OF A HAMPER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 59, 24 October 1911, Page 6

STORY OF A HAMPER.

MY STERIOI7SL Y ! )IS AP P EAR S AND IS RECOVERED, o (Per Press Association.) Wellington, October 2 .‘3. On October oi’tl of last year a con.mercial traveller’s Hamper containing a quantity of valuable sample leather was booked from Auckland by Wai nock Bros, to Dunedin to eaten their traveller in the latter city, but it never reached there. A thorough search was made throughout tne Dominion by the Now Zealand Express Company and the Union Steam Ship Company, but no trace of it could bo found. Ultimately the Union Company paid the claim, which came to about £l7. Recently the hamper was located in si house at Newtown. Almost the • whole of the stolen goods were recovered, amounting to about £-13 or £-15 worth. The hamper, it appears, found its way into the collar of certain premises, but bow it got there cannot at present be explained. All that is knowii is that it was handed out somewhere by the caretakers of the cellar to an expressman’, who, with Ids brother, either took delivery or arranged for delivery with, it is alleged, the object of disposing of the contents. The goods remained in the possession of the expressman until their discovery by the police. Informations have been issued against the caretaker of the cellar, and the summons has been lixed for hearing on Nov.iuoct 1.