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A particularly audacious robbery as being investigated by the Sydney police. A Chinese named Willie Young left his house in Goidburn street to inspect his market gardens in the Pairamatta district. He placed eighty-five sovereigns in a small 1 bag, and locked the money in a chest of drawers in an upstairs bedroom. On the following day a Chinese, who said he was Young's cousin, brought a parcel, which he wished to leave for safe-keeping. Mrs Young, who is an Englishwoman, took him upstairs, and the parcel was placed in one of the drawers, but not the one in which the money was deposited. Two days after Mrs Young opened the door in response to a knock, and was confronted by two men, who pushed her and walked into tihe house. They asked who was in the front bedroom upstairs, and Mrs Young came to the conclusion that the visitors were- plain-clothes policemen. In a few minutes they came downstairs, carrying the parcel -which had been left by her husband's supposed cousin, and on leaving announced that more would be heard of the matter. Mrs Young, on going into the room, found that all the compartments in the chest of drawers had been forced open and ransacked, and that the bag with the eighty -five sovereigns had disappeared. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9332, 6 May 1907, Page 4