DARING ROBBERY

Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 15

DARING ROBBERY

SYDNEY JEWELLERY ESTABLISHMENT THIEF ESCAPES WITH BOOTY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, June 15. (Received June 16, at 1 a.m.) There was an audacious robbery tonight in George street, which was densely crowded. Several men, in an enclosed car, stopped outside Angus and Coote’s large jewellery shop. One man threw a brick, shattered a window, seized three trays of diamond rings valued at a considerable sum, and rushed back to the car. He was about to get inside when a policeman appeared'on the scene. The man pointed 'something resembling a revolver at him, leapt on to the running board, and the car raced away and was lost in the traffic. £5,000 WORTH OF RINGS STOLEN SYDNEY, June 16. (Received June-16, at 11.30 a.m.) The thieves escaped with £5,000 worth of diamond rings, A constable tried to jump on the running board of the car but he fell to the roadway. Further on a pedestrian was knocked down. Ho grabbed the front of the car, and was carried some distance before he fell to the road. He was slightly injured.

Tho Rev. Dr F. W. the famous successor of the Rev. Dr Joseph Parker and Rev. Dr R. J, Campbell at the City Temple, London, who speaks in tho Town Hall to-night and at Knox Church and the Town Hall to-morrow.