BURGLARY IN SURREY
' NEW ZEALANDERS ROBBED. £lOOO IN JEWELLERY TAKEN. Burglars stole pewellery worth £lOOO from the home of Mr and Mrs N. F. Lowndes, of Gisborne, at Upper Warlingham. Surrey. They climbed on the windowsill of the dining room where guests were being entertained. From the windowsill, by means of two stackpipes, they mounted to a balcony. and ransacked three bedrooms. They missed a fourth bedroom, in which there were some valuable fur coats. One fur coat, taken from another bedroom, was found in (Tie backyard. Mr Lowndes’s three Scottish terriers were in the house, but they failed to hear the thieves. "The dogs became excited when I took them out for a run later.” Mr Lowndes said, "and they ran round the building. I followed them and found the fur coat in the Last October burglars broke into the] house, when they took furs and missed the jewellery.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 6
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150BURGLARY IN SURREY Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 6
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