EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2264, 13 January 1887, Page 2

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.

|by telegraph—press association. I Wellington, Tuesday. A MOST impudent robbery occurred yesterday at the house of Mr John Plimmer, an old and well-known resident of Wellington. On Sunday a man named Reuben Hind, who was before the Court a short time ago for personating Mr Jellicop, the lawyer, visited Mr Plimmer, and by pleading destitution, obtained some money from him. Yesterday evening Mr Plimmer, on returning home, met Hind coming out of the house with a parcel wrapped in green baize under his arm. The fellow said he had called to say good-bye. informing Mr Plimmer that he was about to leave Wellington, The latter unsuspiciously allowed htm to go, and afterwards found that his cash-box had disappeared, the contents including £35 in money, a cheque, a quantity of jewellery, and valuable documents. Hind was arrested this morning; and the jewellery and the mass of the money was found on hiiu. The box and documents have not yet been recovered. A later telegram says: A woman giving her name as Annie Hind has been arrested along with Reuben Hind in connection with the rabbery from the residence of Mr John Plimmer. It is estimated that the value of the property stolen is £200. The greater p«rtion of the money and all the jewellery has been recovered, but the cashbox, marriage certificate, and other stolen documents are still missing. Wednesday. Mrs Hind,, charged with being concerned in the robbery committed by her husband at the residence of Mr John Plimmer, was acquitted. The husband was committed for trial.