Art Gallery Burgled.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The local art gallery was burgled between 5.30 on Saturday and 2.30 p.m. yesterday, and a famous landscape painting by R. W. Leader, R.A., was stolen. The painting, which represented an English landscape, a view from Surrey Hills, was on canvas about 4ft by sft, and was safe when the gallery closed on Saturday. Yesterday the frame was discovered in the ante-room and a dark lantern, jemmy, and other burglarious tools lying round. The picture was brought to New Zeaalnd by a Mr London, with other English works of art, for the recent New Zeaalnd Exhibition, and was subsequently purchased by Mrs W. B. Rhodes, of Wellington, for about £6OO, and presented to the local gallery.
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Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3757, 14 April 1908, Page 2
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125Art Gallery Burgled. Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3757, 14 April 1908, Page 2
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