A coolie's weakness for making acquaintance with mafoos was the means of the Municipal Police capturing him on a charge of stealing jewellery and valuable coins to the value of more than 31,000. The alleged thief was in the employ of Mr. J. Davis who resides at 107 Yangtszepoo Road and on April 90 the valuables were missed and at the came time the coolie disappeared. The police were informed and they sent out descriptions of him with a footnote, "the prisoner associates with mafoos." For some time the coolie evaded arrest. but he was ultimo ately found fraternizing with me-foos in a stable. He was taken to the Mixed Court yesterday and remanded for a week on the charge of theft.
Mr. Davis, it appears, left his premises on the day in question and only his wife was at home. Singularly enough she never heard the coolie taking the articles away despite the fact that he had to burst open the door of a bedroom, and then wrench the lock off an iron box that contained—the jewellery case. When the theft discovered it was remembered that the coolie had gone backwards and forwards from the direction of the bedroom with a dustbin, and it ix presumed that in this manner he got the valuables away. These included pearls, gold chains, gold watches, ringe, neck chains, bangles, American and Russian gold coins, and a valuable collection of South African coins gathered dur. ing the A ring and a few inexpensive articles were aube sequently recovered by the police, who are now searching for two mafoos, who, they believe, have been associated with the robbery and the disposal of the goods.
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