STORY OF A HAMPER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 24 October 1911, Page 8

STORY OF A HAMPER.

MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS AND IS RECOVERED. By Telegraph—Press Associaition. Wellington, Last Night, On October 3 of last year a commercial traveller's hamper containing a quantity of valuable sample leather was booked from Auckland by Wanrock Bros, to Dunednn to catch their traveller in the latter city, but it never reached there. A thorough search was made throughout the Dominion by the New Zealand Express Company and the Union Steamship Company, ,but no trace of it could be found. Ultimately the Union Company paid the claim, which came to abojuH £47. Recently the hamper was located in a house at Newton Almost the whole of the stolen goods were recovered, amounting to about £43 or £44 worth. The hamper, it appears, found its way into the cellar of certain premises, but how it got there cannot at present be explained. All that is known is that it was hauded out somewhere by the caretakers of the cellar to an expressman, who, with his brother, either took delivery or arranged for delivery with, it is alleged, the object of disposing of the contents. The goods remained in the possession of the expressman until their discovery by the police. Informations have been issued against the caretaker of the cellar, and the summons has been fixed for hearing on November 1.