DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
THIEVES'HAUL OF JEWELLERY
CROWDED WEST END STREETS
(Received sth January, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 4th January. Two daring daylight robberies were carried out in the forenoon in a busy West End. street. The manager of a wholesaJe jewellers'.establishment was fetching a box of. £20,000 worth of jewellery from the Jbank in New Bond street, and carrying it to the shop round the corner, when he was attacked from behind. His hat was pulled over his eyes/and he was felled. The box containing £20,000 worth of jewellery was thrown into a moving motor-car, in which: the thieves escaped through crowded streets, despite a chase. They had evidently studied the manager's Monday morning practice of carrying the jewellery from the bank.
While the police were scouring Mayfair the same thieves and three others swooped on another jeweller's shop within fifty yards, smasned a window, grabbed a tray- of several thousand pounds worth of brooches, pushed off passers-by trying to seize them, and dashed away in a motor-car.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1932, Page 8
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166DAYLIGHT ROBBERY Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1932, Page 8
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