N.Z. ACTRESS ROBBED.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18378, 11 July 1931, Page 17 (Supplement)

N.Z. ACTRESS ROBBED.

WHILE ENTERTAINING PRISONERS HER LONDON FLAT RANSACKED. While a London actress was entertaining prisoners at Wormwood Scrubs Prison her flat was ransacked by thieves and a quantity of jewellery stolen.

The victim of this freak of fortune was Marie Ney, who is playing in “London Wall” at the Duke of York’s Theatre, and who lives at South Kensington. When she returned home and found what had happened she saw tho funny side of it, and burst out laughing. She was still chuckling when a reporter spoke to her that night. She said—"l was reading Shakespeare to the prisoners, and I think that’s why my flat was broken into.

"The door of the flat was badly damaged. The thief was evidently in a great hurry, judging by the way the flat had been ransacked. He was apparently after money, as pillows even had been turned over. “A number of small articles of jewellery were taken, including a gold cigarette case and a solitaire diamond brooch. Some of the articles stolen were of much sentimental value to me, especially a gold chain which my father gave to my mother."