DAYLIGHT ROBBERY

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1932, Page 6

DAYLIGHT ROBBERY

£20,000 IN STOLEN

DARING RAIDS BY BANDITS

LONDON, July 6.

Hundreds of London typists and clerks had the thrill of their lives at High Holburn when they saw a £20,U00 jewel robbery carried out by motorcar bandits.

A man suddenly sprang to his feet from the back seat of a dilapidated motor-car. He leaped over the side of the car and rushed at a youth Dairying an innocent-looking attache case, whom he tackled like a Rugby expert. Both fell heavily, hut tlie car bandit regain his feet quickly, snatched the oas©, sprinted to catch up with the moving car, flung the case inside, and jumped in. ; The attacked youth, an assistant to Mr Adolph Kempler, a Hatton Garden diamond merchant, was accompanying his employer to the Chancely ane Safe Deposit, where the £20,000 worth of jewels were to be stored. The bandits’ drew up behind them as they reached premises opposite Chancery Lane Tube Station, and a minute. later the jewels had changed hands.

Two taxicabs and a private car gave chase, hut the fugitives escaped. The bandits’ car was 'later found ah andoned at Kingsway, and detectives set out to search the West End for the men.