GUNMEN’S RAID

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 863, 6 January 1930, Page 13

GUNMEN’S RAID

WEDDING PARTY LOSES £BO,OOO OF JEWELS A reward of £7,000 if taken alive, and of £IO,OOO if dead, is offered for the apprehension of seven gunmen who obtained jewels valued at £BO,OOO at a pre-nuptial party in Buffalo last month. A daring raid was made on the home of Mr. John I. Carson, junr., who was entertaining a young couple to he married in New York. Fourteen guests were gathered together when the robbers entered the house through a French window and walked into the dining-room. . , „ . One of the guests who asked their business was silenced by a blow from the butt-end of a revolver. When one of the women tried to tear off the mask off one gunman she was knocked down and kicked. Alter that there was no more resistance. . . ~ The gunmen stripped all the guests of their jewellery, obtaining from one woman a string of matched pearls said to be worth £50,000. The bride-to-be also lost valuable jewels. . . Describing the experience, one of the women said: “They were not so mean about it, just businesslike. One of the gunmen picked up my bag and took out a flve-dollar bill, which he dropped on the table, saying I had better take it because I looked as though I needed it.” However, she lost her necklace, which she valued at £7,000. When everything of value had been collected everyone was made to lie flat on the floor while the seven men departed.