DARING JEWEL ROBBERY.
AN INGENIOUS RUSE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oonyrlghl London, June 3. Freeman and Company, jewel merchants, deposited a heavily-ironed box in the cloak-room of the King's Cross Station. It contained jewels valued at *04000, and the intention was to send it by train next morning. During the evening a supposed district messenger asked that the box be removed to another cloakroom, and secured a second ticket. A cab drove up at 5 o'clock in the morniug, and tho man presented the second ticket. Porters lifted the box on to the cab, which then departed. When" the Freeman Company presented their ticket tho theft was discovered. Five hundred pounds' reward has been offered.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1768, 5 June 1913, Page 5
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113DARING JEWEL ROBBERY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1768, 5 June 1913, Page 5
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