DARING BURGLARY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 157, 5 July 1934, Page 10

DARING BURGLARY

AUCKLAND HOUSE ENTERED GOLD CUPS AND JEWELLERY MISSING [ Per Press Association. J AUCKLAND, July 4. A daring burglary was committed early in the evening at the home of Mrs. W. R. Sweetapple in Newmarket and resulted in the theft of jewellery and three gold cups valued at nearly £BOO. The articles were taken from rooms at the front of t’ e house and there were no indications of any disturbance in the remainder of the premises, the assumption being that the thieves were disturbed in the course of the robbery. Entry was gained evidently by means of an open fanlight above a window of the front bedroom, it is thougnt that the window could have been opened easily enough, and that it was closed once the intruders were inside the house. As the residence is somewhat below the level of the road, it would have been possible for the thieves to have entered the house in that way without much risk of being seen, especially if the theft were committed about dusk. Na one was home after 4 p.m. The discovery of the theft was made at 7.30, when Mr. Sweetapple and his nephew reached home from the city. The house was at once seen to be in a state of disorder and the absence of the three gold cups, representing the successes Mrs. Sweetapple had secured at trotting, was noticed at once. The cups ordinarily occupied a place in the sitting-room. The wooden stands of two of the cups had been discarded by the thieves and had been flung aside carelessly. The stand of th e third cup was affixed firmly to the trophy. The cups are valued at some £2OO and are fine examples of the goldsmith’s art. Two of them were won at Waikato meetings by Torpedo Huon and Great Change, and the third was won at Hawke’s Bay by Aaachne. When Mis. Sweetapple reached her home she was able to g’ve particulars of a quantity of valuable jewellery which was missing from the bedroom.