Daring Robbery of Diamonds

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 96, 6 February 1890, Page 3

Daring Robbery of Diamonds

•_ , ♦ London, December 20. . ' A" daring robbery waa committed in •London on the evening of December • 17tb, when a postman, who was delivering letters, was garrotted and deprived of his bag containing registered packets of great value. The scene of the robbery was Hatton Garden district where, diamond merchants and jewellers carry on business, and itap- . pears that the thieves had carefully ' planned the robbery, so that they might secure a rich booty. The post- . tnan had a registered letter addressed .to a man named Crosby, who occupied a small room on a second floor. When i he entered the room to obtain the receipt he was immediately seized from /'behind by two men,, who held him "•■•"■■ >ound the throat until he became insensible. When he recovered the Ipostman1 postman found himself locked in the room and his bag of letters gone. He immediately gave the alarm, but no trace of the thieves could.be found. Nobody had seen them except a boy, *ho had noticed nothii g extraordinary about tbeir appearance. No doubt the : r bbery had been matured forsome tijne for the room was taken by Crosby eight weeks before, ostensibly to carry on a jewellery trade, but no one saw him do any business. IJt is believed that the thieves intended to secure the Cape mail letters, many of which bring diamonds of which bring diamonds to Hatton garden, but fortu- : Bately the mail arrived early and the - letter* were delivered on the previous evening. Ais it was, However, they *B&uretL a very valuable collection of '« diamonds arid jewels' worth £6,(300 y or £7.00 p.. The police, have made great efforts to trace the thieves, but w'thout : availv for: they have only a * vague desoriptidn of v-Grosbyi whose 'neighbours very rarely x&w. him: