MURRABIT woman Marlene Laursen has been left “shattered and stunned” after a bag containing her mother’s jewellery was taken from a Kerang café.
Ms Laurson is “not impressed at the world” after precious and sentimental items in a green bag mistakenly left in Chino’s Cafe on Victoria Street were taken and neither returned to café staff nor handed into police.
The 81-year-old attended Chino’s on Wednesday November 10 from 10am to 10.30am and left in a hurry as she was not feeling well, with the bag left on the floor at the front of the counter.
She left behind a green fabric shopping bag within which she had a red velvet case inside an unsealed post pack.
Inside the case were three items of individually bubble wrapped jewellery.
Rosary beads and a gold locket on a gold chain that are both at least 75 years old, and a triple string of pearls were inside, all belongings of Ms Laursen’s mother.
Anyone who knows anything about the jewellery’s location or who picked up the bag can return it to Chino’s, the Kerang police station or the Gannawarra Times office.
