COPYING A BURGLAR
LOXBOX. Foil. 20. Jewel lory valued at £SOO was stolen I'm,n the house of Mr .Sidney Drage, 90, FitzjohiTs-avenue, Hampstead, X.W., during Thursday night. The servants discovered two rooms locked, and Mr Drake’s 21-yoars-old-son. Ben. climlied up the stackpipe as the burglar had previously done and entered one of the rooms: 1 lie police waited below in case of developments, hut the thief had gone. Four rooms on the first floor had been ransacked, hut the burglar missed a bug containing £ls in notes and several valuables, “My son climbed up the pipe into his room because the policemen and our chauffeur were too heavily built,” Mrs Drage said to a reporter yesterday. “Ft was a risky thing to do, las we did not know if the thief had gone and wo were all relieved when he found the room empty. Among the articles stolen were a diamond oval shape watch and diamond brooch.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1926, Page 3
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157COPYING A BURGLAR Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1926, Page 3
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