DRURY

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 164, 11 April 1916, Page 3

DRURY

SEQUEL TO ALLEGED THEFT A of theft of jewellery from wfrious Auckland tradesmen was preferred at the. Auckland Police Court on Saturday against a Drury resident named Anna Eliza Steen, aged 23, and a remand was granted until Thursday next, bail in one surety of £SO being .allowed. The incidents as reported to the police were that a youug woman, alleged to be the accused, called at certain jewellers' shops in Auckland last Wednesday afternoon und after her departure various ai ticles were found to be missing. It is also stated that one of the victimised tradesmen proceeded to the railway Btation and just as the 5.45 pm. train for Drury was starting he noticed accused in a carnage and attempted to wrest her hand bag from her, but was prevented from doing so by other passengers, who were under the impression that a barefaced robbery was being attempted. On Friday Detective Powell and Constable Waugh (Papakura) proceeded ito Drury to make enquiries. Strange enough, the police officers seem to have been rather fortunate in having been delayed in their investigations, for it is stated that until Friday afternoon the jewellery had been "planted." The fetory told about it being brought to light is that on Friday morning the young lady told her fiancee that she had had a particularly vivid dream, in which she saw some jewellery in a secret place under a little hridge on the <oad between Papakura and Drury. The dream impressed her so much that when the pair were out driving that day and came to the bridge she went underneath the bridge just to verify the dream, and there, sure enough, she found the jewellery, which was afterwards claimed ly the detective as the property of the Auckland jewellers.