SCARED BY CLOCK.
A WHISTLING BIRD SURPRISE. An automatic clock, placed on a chest of drawc'rs in the bedroom of a flat at Park-lane occupied by Mr. P. A. Brooksbank, is believed to have scared two foreign looking men who raided the fiat last month. When the clock is picked up a lid flics open and a bird appears, and whistles a particularly shrill no e. 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 bo valued at £2,000. I The flat had been plaee'd in the hands of a house-agent to let furnished. Two men called at the flat, asking for details. It was arranged that they should return later in the day. They came back an hour before' the appointed j time and were shown into the dining- > room. Half an hour later they rang I the bell and one of them said to the { maid, who found them in the hall: *' l l | have thrown a cigarette in the diningroom and you had bette'r see that it jis not burning the carpet.’’ When she i returned they had gone. The police later recovered some of the missing property.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 164, 23 December 1926, Page 6
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211SCARED BY CLOCK. Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 164, 23 December 1926, Page 6
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