NEW PROTECTION
AGAINST SHOP RAIDERS
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
LONDON, June 8
An impressive demonstration of how science can defeat “smash and grab” shop raiders, was given at a conference of the national association, of goldsmiths at Southend. A delegate hurled a heavy iron motor jack through the plate glass window of a dummy shop-front, and immediately a siren screeched so that it could be heard for half a mile, a gas bomb exploded, a smoke bomb burst, and a steel blind snapped across the window, operated by an invisible ray. Thus the gems were c:aved from the clutching hand of the bandit.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1932, Page 5
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105NEW PROTECTION Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1932, Page 5
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