CARGO OF GOLD STOLEN

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21417, 8 March 1935, Page 11

CARGO OF GOLD STOLEN

THREE BOXES VALUED AT £20,000 STRONGROOM ROBBED AT CROYDON LONDON, March o\ Gold 1.0 the value of £20,000, delivered at Croydon Aerodrome last night for dispatch to the Continent, was deposited in a strongroom, but when the strongroom was opened to-day the gold had vanished. Three boxes were stolen. The first contained 6000 sovereigns, the second gold bars, and the third American gold dollars. The robbery is one of the most baffling in the history of crime. The boxes, which weighed 2401b, were locked up at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday. When the vault was opened, at 7.30 a.m. on Wednesday they had vanished. The outer door was still locked, but the inner steel door was ajar! None of the locks had been forced, and all the keys are accounted for. A wax impression of the key would have been quite useless, as if inaccurate to one hundred-thousandth part of an inch it would have failed to open the steel door. SLENDER CLUES UNIFORMED CAR BANDITS (Received March 7, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 6. The "Daily Mail" says that Scotland Yard has only the most slender clues to the Croydon robbery. It is believed that it was carried out by car bandits, uniformed closely to resemble Imperial Airways officials.