MYSTERY OF A HAMPER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3356, 24 October 1911, Page 3

MYSTERY OF A HAMPER.

STOLEN GOODS RECOVERED.

AFTER TWELVE MONTHS

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 23

On October 3rd of last year a, commercial traveller’s hamper, containing a valuable quantity of sample leather, was booked from Auckland by War nock Bros, to Dunedin, to catch their traveller in the latter city, but the hamper 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 bo found. Ultimately the Union Company paid a claim which came to about £47. Recently the- hamper was located in a house at Newtown. 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 in the city, but how it got there cannot at present be explained. All that is known is that it was handed out somewhere by the caretaker of the cellar to an expressman, who with his brother either took delivery or arranged for delivery with it. it is alleged with the object of disposing of t-lie contents. The goods remained in the possession of the expressman until their discovery by the police. Information has been issued against the caretaker of the cellar, and the summons has been fixed for hearing on November Ist.