THEFTS ON NIAGARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1919, Page 6

THEFTS ON NIAGARA.

TWO STEWARDS SENT TO GAOL, Auckland, June 2. When detectives were investigating the theft from passengers on. the Niagara they found silver valued at £7 and serviette rings valued at £3 10s planted Two stewards confessed to the theft o' these articles, and at the Police Court to-day Charles J. Harris, for theft of the silver, and William Harris, for theft of the serviette rings, were each sentence! to three months' hard labor. No arrests in connection with the thefts of clothing from the Niagara on Saturday have been made by the police. The thefts were committed just as the passengers had risen from dinner. In all six cabins were entered, and the value of the clothing and other goods stolen is now estimated at £3OO. As previously stated, a very valuable fur coat, which was among the stolen articles, was found floating in the harbor near the Niagara, and the police incline to the belief that, fearing detection, the thieves dumped the whole of the booty overboard when leaving. The i detectives were on board the vessel late to-night. A boy is reported to have found a lady's fur floating in the harbor.