CALLED BACK.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1258, 13 October 1911, Page 4

CALLED BACK.

» THE KOIIN ROBBERY SUSPECTS. ARRIVE BY S.S. MAITAI. UPHILL TASK OP EXTRADITION. Among tho passengers brought by the Maitai to Wellington from San Francisco yesterday ware William and Maud Rogers, who liavo been arrested on suspicion of perpetuating tho Kohn burglary in Auckland somo months ago. Tho suspects were in tlio custody of Detective Scott, of Auckland. What Was Taken at Kohn's. Between Saturday night and Monday morning, March 18 to March 20, jewellery valued at .£BIO was stolen from the shop of Adolph Kohn, in Queen Street, Auckland, and early in May tho police at Saa liancisco arrested the Rogers's (William and Maud) with certain jewellery in their possession. Reports of tho alleged burglary, published by the Auckland newspapers, played a part in effecting tho or. rest, as a former employee of Kohn's, nowresident in the Californian city, professed to be able to identify the jewcDery discovered by the police. The circumstances which led to tho arrest aro interesting. Acting in tho usual way in such cases, the police concentrated somo attention on the pawn, shops, and, naturally, redoubled that attention when they learned that largo quantities of jewellery vero being plcdged, and William Rogers and Maud Rog. ers were eventually apprehended. On being arrested, William Rogers stat. Ed that he had come from London by way of Hong-Kong, but this was found to bo untrue. Besides this, somo of tho jewellery was recognised to bo of colonial manufacture, and so ho atfd his wife, Maud Rogers, wore lx>th held under tho system of detinue while the matter was being further investigated. Detective Leaves for 'Frisco. In the meantime tho Auckland press nad devotod some attention to tho case, and suosciuent publicity in tho Sao Jirauuscu papors had an important bearing on events which followed: It an. pears that a former employee of Messrs. ' « ii ls .!J? r - I i u f" Smit 'o received copies ol tho New Zealand Herald" containing reports of the alleged burglary, and was flblo (with his knowledge of tho goods stocked by Kohn) to identify the jewellory recovered by tho San Francisco detectives as the property of the firm. On June 3 Detective Scott left Auckland by the Aorangi to bring tho two suspects, who had proceeded to America, back to Auckland, and, for nearly four months, Rogers and his wifo have taken advantage of the technicalities of American law to light the extradition proceedings. Ihoy assigned to an attorney named Judge Cook a certain four hundred dollars, and thero was much delay concerning tho right of tho Now Zealand detective to recover this monev. He has, in fact, had to return without it. All the jewellery, with tho exception of a few articles, has been recovered, the officers responsible for this result being Lieutenant Mathcson and Dctcctivo Sergeant O'Dea. The Voyage Back Here. Rogers is'an Englishman by birth, and, so far as the police liavo ascertained, was in Auckland for only a few mouths before tho alleged burglary was committed. . His wife is an Australian, twenty-seven years of age, her husband being twenty, four. They are described as well-spoken, intelligent people, of good appearance, find they gave Detective Scott no trouble on the voyage to New Zealand. The woman proved a poor sailor, and, as the weather was mostly bad, she, at any rate, did not enjoy the return to New Zealand. _ Dctectivo Scott will probably leave Weilington for Auckland with tho two prisoners by tho Main Trunk express train this morning.