JEWELLERY STOLEN
HEIRESS' LOSES HEAVILY. LONDON, November 3U. Miss Joan Pearson, who is living with her grandmother, Annie, Viscountess Cowdray, at 10 Carlton Hous e Terrace, was robbed of £BOOO worth of jewels in a daring raid while the family was at dinner. Though there are 20 servants in the house, none saw the robber, who crept in by the area steps of an unoccupied house nearby, broke the skylight, crossed roofs, jumped to the fire escape of No. 16, and thus reached a bedroom window of Lady Cowdray's house. When he had ransacked Miss Joan s room, h£ climbed back by the fire escape.’ No clue, not even a fingerprint, was left.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1931, Page 5
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