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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 3

•A unique,; daring, and carefully planned robbery . lias. been fcommitted .at tlie , Sillot-h Lighthouse, and the: thief .succeeded in making' his: haul and' gettihg aWay. It appears that when Mr. James Sharp, the lighthouse keoper,: v was;.'6n'shore getting fresh, water; -.he-'noticed. a man ; ascend :to the lighthouse, come down again, arid make off along' the seashore ..in, the .direction : ; of Allonby. >•. Mr: Sharp, '.' : ondoavoMißd^to;. : intercept - him but before;,he could :do- ; so : he was : compelled- to give np .the chase, and, retrace his footsteps in,;order,.-'to* regain .'the; lighthouse before; the tide reached it. '.On, a'soending the lad: dcr he, discovered;,that the door of the lighthouse .had ;,bew ; brolcai • open/}an<J-. that: three sovereigns had been abstracted-from a box, whilst.abput 6s;-in' silver and' a silver'watch' had remained untouched. . ...