A Costly Bustle.
There is a curious, story on record reilating to dress-improvers. Ie is eaid ;that' one day last week " a lady " .slept ab an hotel in Birmingham, and left behind Sl^er —hidden between theWttressea of the, bed —an " old-fashioned bustle," very heavy, because it was stuffed with artiqljea of jewellery, valued at nearly £200»eaph t •article" having attached a email slip "of jvellum, bearing what seems to be a trades-, ;mffn's mark. J?ho police have been lQok^ jiiig;'for tlie *' lady,, but at; present^,^avejnbt'iound her.. ;Thoy haye aman/ia,'custody "wKb is siippo^e'd ito 'know, more thart he cares to tell, and it 'is .imagined^ itnat 'tine 1 jWeller^;, Jfoirms part of the.pro^ Iceed^ ! of burglaries in ' Melbourne, Vic--ftoria. ' . '''t. r . : '',<
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 242, 18 February 1888, Page 4 (Supplement)
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172A Costly Bustle. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 242, 18 February 1888, Page 4 (Supplement)
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