This was not discovered till afterwards.

He first missed his watch.
He rang the servants up, for it was still early; and it was then discovered that the lower premises had been broken into, the plate chest in the butler's pantry broken open, and a large quantity of plate stolen.
"What do you estimate the value of the articles stolen, Mr.
Ellison ?" "The value of my wife's jewels I should put down, roughly, at two thousand pounds; the silver plate might have been worth three hundred more; the watches and other articles, so far as I yet miss them, say another hundred." The servants proved that they found the kitchen window open, on going downstairs.

It had been opened by the catch being forced back.

It was not the custom to put up shutters.

The pantry door, which was a strong one, had been cut with a saw round the lock.