THEFT IN 30 SECONDS

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

THEFT IN 30 SECONDS

£3,000 JEWELS STOLEN RAPID DAYLIGHT RAID A bandit drama, in 30 seconds. Scene: New Bond Street, London, j Time: Broad daylight; 10 a.m. A big sports car drives up to the j shop of S. J. Phillips—a man jumps : from the footboard, smashes the window with a brick —grabs diamond and | pearl necklaces, worth £3,000 —and, with the others, drives off. The drama is so rapid that five assistants in the shop at the time are helpless. Face at the Window “I saw the face of a man peering over the top of the grille which protects the lower half of the window,” said one. “I heard a crash. I saw a hand pushed through the broken glass and pull something away. “By the time we had run to the door the raiders were already off in their car.” Two policemen saw the raiders drive off and they at once commandeered another ear and followed —only to be outdistanced. The raiders’ car was found later, abandoned, in Culross Street. The raider who broke the window stood up on a box, which he had brought with him. The missing jewellery is:—Diamond collet necklace of 38 brilliants. Rope of 87 graduated pearls, with platinum and pearl cluster snap. Rope of 169 pearls. Tyler and Company, assessors, of Holborn Viaduct, offer a reward of £3OO for their recovery.