JEWELLERY RAID
j CONSTABLE FIGHTS RAIDERS. THIEVES SECURE LITTLE, LONDON, October 20. After liig own truncheon had been j hurled back him, a Vjnnbledjon 1 policeman yesterday tackled four men who had tried to raid a jeweller’s shop in the Broadway. The policeman, Constable A. Morrison, was patrolling near the Broadway at 3 a.m. when he heard a strange noise and went into the main road He saw a car cruising slowly past the shop of Messrs Relf and Co. Two men were standing on /the pavement and a third was stooping down with his arm through the shop shutters He threw his truncheon at the stooping man and ran forward, but the truncheon missed its mark and one of the other men hurled it back, narrowly missing the constable As the men dashed for the car and jumped in, P.C. Morrison leapt on to the running board. He was received with a severe punch on the chin, which sent him into the road. The raiders raced away. Tlie men had. smashed the shutters of the shop and broken the window. Little was stolen.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1933, Page 7
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184JEWELLERY RAID Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1933, Page 7
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