AUDACIOUS ROBBERY
JEWEIjLER ‘ ‘ARRESTED.”
BY BOGUS ARAIY OFFICERS
[United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]
ROME, March 6
One of the most audacious robberies in the annals of Italy were carried out in Rome. Two men dressed as. Cavabineri officers, not only requisitioned the entire stock of a jeweller’s shop in the centre of the city, but arrested the proprietor on a faked up charge of receiving stolen goods. They took him to the Central Police Station, and gave him into-custody. Then they quietly decamped with ’ their loot, twenty thousand pounds worth ol jewellery. This they had previously placed in boxes, sealed in the presence of the distracted jeweller, who protested his innocence so vigorously to the police that the authorities finally scrutinised again the arrest papers. The whole thing was then found to be bogUS. . - rl The detective force at Rome have been buzzing with activity all day. They have affected one arrest.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1930, Page 5
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