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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10314, 25 January 1927, Page 8

SCARED BY CLOUIv. WHISTLING BIRD SURPRISES THRIVES An automatic cluck, placed on a chest of drawers in the' bedroom of a flat at Park-lane occupied by Mr. P. A. Brooks bank, is believed to ’have scared two foreign looking men who raided the flat last month. When the clock is picked up a lid flies open and a bird appears, and whistles a. particularly shrill note. It is thought that one of the thieves handled the clock, the note was sounded and further search for valuables was abandoned hurriedly. The jewellery missing, is said" to be valued at £‘2, G(JU. The flat had been placed in the hands of a house-agent to let furnished. Two men Called at the Hat, asking for details. It was arranged that they should return later in the day. They came back an hour before the appointed time and were shown into the dining room." Half an hour later they rang the bell and one of them said to the maid, who found them in the hall: “l have thrown a cigarette in the dining room and you had better see that it is not burning the carpet.” When she returned they had gone. The police have recovered some of the missing property.

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