JEWEL RAID
(Press Assn.—
DARING THIEF RANSACKS YOUNG WOMAN'S BEDROOM HAUL VALUED AT £8,000
-By Telegraph— Copyright).
LONDON, Sunday. Miss Joan Pearson, who is living with her" gfandmother, the dowager, Viscountess of Cowdray, at 16 Carlton House Terrace, was robbed of £8000 worth of jewels in a daring raid made while the family were at dinner. * Though 20 servants were in the house none, saw the robber who apparently ci*ept down the atea steps oi" an unoccupied house nearby, got through a btoken skylight, ; crossed the roofs, juihped to the.fire escape of No. 16, and thus reached a bedrpom window : of Lady Cowdray s ; house when he ransacked Miss Pear1 son's bedrooni. He then climbed back to the fire escape. » He' left no clufe, not even a fingerprint. .
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 79, 24 November 1931, Page 5
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