JIG-SAW LETTER CLUE.
Butler Sent to Gaol for £SOO Theft.
When a butler left a Hampstead (London) house it was found that jewellery worth £SOO was missing.
So a detective wras called in. In the butler’s room he saw many tiny pieces of paper—just like pieces of a jig-saw puzzle.
After three hours’ patient labour the detective discovered from the writing that the butler was corresponding with a woman in the north.
In the room was also a coaching station guide.
The scene changed to a King’s Cross coaching station, where the detective decided to keep watch. He saw the butler arrive and told him that he would be arrested.
The butler tried to bluff. “ This is too funny for words,” he said. “ Let’s get on with it. You have made the biggest mistake of your life, and you will know all about it by the time I have finished with this.”
At the police station most of the jew r ellery was found in the butler’s possession.
The story was told at Marylebone Police Court when the butler was sentenced to six months’ hard labour for the theft, says the London “ Evening Standard.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20567, 19 March 1935, Page 1
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194JIG-SAW LETTER CLUE. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20567, 19 March 1935, Page 1
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