This site no longer exists. I think it might have been where the Brotherhood of St Laurence now stands. The building is newer, so it could have been that the original buildings here have been removed.
From at least 19 January 1907, Joseph Jennings ran a store making and selling jewellery on the site (Fitzroy Press).
“In 1912, Henrietta Tatt, an elderly woman, was charged before Acting Joduge Gurner with having received some silver plated and other goods, knowing them to have been stolen. Mr Hogan prosecuted and Mr Larkin appeared for accused, who pleaded not guilty.
The case for the crown was that on 28th October last Joseph Jennings, jeweller, of Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, missed from his premises goods valued at 14 pounds. It transpired that they had been taken by Rose Austin, a girl 13 years of age, who then lived above the shop. Austin now stated that she gave some of the articles to accused. Accused pawned various things at three pawnbrokers’ shops in her own name. When Detective Rohan called upon her, and questioned her concerning the proceeds of the robbery, she at first denied all knowledge of the things.
The defence was that Austin bought the goods (produced) to the house of accused, in Napier street, and had given some to her and some to her son. Mrs. Tatt, however asserted that she was not aware that the property had been stolen. Austin had told her that the articles had been given to her by her uncle who was a jeweller and was retiring from business.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty and accused was discharged. William Thomas Burgess, a son of the previous accused by a former marriage, was also charged with receiving portion of the goods knowing them to have been stolen. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and he was discharged”. (The Age, 17 Dec 1912 p.11)
On 10 November, Monday night, someone tried to break into the shop by wrenching the back door off, but in the course of their damage to the door they rendered it unable to open at all (The Argus, 14 Nov 1913).
