POLITE JEWEL THIEF.

Shannon News, 12 September 1922, Page 2

POLITE JEWEL THIEF.

HAUL OF VALUABLE RINGS.

London, August 29.

"He turned -on his heel, laughed,

bowed himself out, and slammed the door, and that’s the last we saw of him.”

This is how a jeweller's assistant

describes the climax of a clever hotel theft in London, where a smiling, debonair youth walked off with J 22500 worth of rings. Using the name? of "Mr Bolman, *

he visited Mappin and Webb’s in Regent Street, and asked to have the

rings sent to a Piccadilly hotel for the inspection of his sick wife. The manager says: “We’ve: offers heard that story, so I sent an assist-

ant with a burly messenger. ‘Bolman’ carried out the sick wife "trick to a certain fpolnt. ' When he wished to show the rings to his wife in an ad-

joining bedroom, the jeweller politely, asked to be allowed to accompany them. ‘Bolman’ demurred, and them played a real trick. JHe was examining and admiring a ring, and suddenly shot out his arms, knocked the two custodians in a heap, and van-

ished. When they tried to follow him the door handle came off. It had been unscrewed. The other door was fastened by- fixing a bolt. The telephone wire was cut, and the bellrope, hanging by a single strand, broke. They-opened the window and attracted the attention of a police station under their very noses. “A sergeant called out, ‘You’re mak-

ing a great fuss; what is it all about?* When he learned the facts he rushed round to the hotel, but the bird had flown.”