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LADY AND HER NEPHEW.• . ■*». ■ , •Philip W. Tucker and Vivian Wilfred Lewis, clerks, were charged at Marylebone with being concerned in stealing jewellery valued at £100, the property of Annie Marie Watkins, of Bickenhall Man-• %fr‘ -v •sions, W.Mrs. Watkins said that Tucker, was her nephew, and he had called on her occasionally. On August 28 she went out shopping, and on returning was told that he had called. A couple of days later she went to her dressing-table in her bedroom and missed the jewellery in question. The bedroom was on the same floor as her dining-room.Detective-sergeant Draper said that he arrested Tucker at Aberdare, Glamorganshire, the previous day. He at once admitted having stolen the • jewellery from the bedroom during the absence of the maidservant, who Was getting him some note-paper. He and Lewis pledged the jewellery, raising £7 on -the ring, £6 on the brooch, and £12 on the diamond gold heart. They then left London, andhad spent all the money.Detective-inspector Simmons said Tucker was a deserter from the Hussars. He was 'in the band, and not liking it he left. Lewis was the son of respectable parents, his father holding a good Government aopointment.- The Prisoners were remanded;* * . ’ * •
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London Standard
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Sep 11, 1906
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