JEWELLERY ROBBERY. AN IMPUDENT RAID. THOUSANDS OF POUNDS' WORTH OF JEWELLERY STOLEN.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 409, 9 October 1889, Page 3

JEWELLERY ROBBERY. AN IMPUDENT RAID. THOUSANDS OF POUNDS' WORTH OF JEWELLERY STOLEN.

A daring robbery was committed in a jeweller's shop at the Sydney Arcade between the evening of last Saturday week and the following- Monday morning. The manner in which the entrance to the shop was effected shows both skill and determination on the part of the robbers, who were so successful that the booby is estimated at about a thousand pounds. The shop entered was that of Mr Charles Twemlow, at the corner of George-street and the King- , street Arcade. To get into it the thieves had to pass through an adjacent barber's shop occupied by Mr Kruger, cut an aperture through a brick wall two feet thick, by which Quong, Tart and Co.'s premises were entered, and thence make a hole in the floor through which the. jeweller's shop beneath was reached. The discovery of the burglary was not made till yesterday morning, and the operations of the offenders were traced with the greatest ease. Affixed to a wall in Mr Quong Tart's office in a conspicuous place was the following note :—: — "My compliments to Quong Tart and Co. and "the barber for the damage I have done them. Only for Tart having a too cunning lock on his door I would nob have interfered with the barber at all. In plain words, I ceuld not fit it (using burglar's slang), so I had to fall back on the barber. Rather a roundabout way, was it not? I suppose the police will get the scent (the usual cry), and it is 1 to be hoped that's all they ever will get. Clever lot of fellows. Bub I must not be funny and anticipate ; I may get booby-hatched yet. Au revoir, a la impudence." An umbrella, an augur, a cup containing oil, and other articles were found in the room above the shop. The oil had been used so that the working of the augur would be noiseless, and the umbrella was pushed through a small hole and opened so that it might catch the falling mortar from the ceiling when the larger aperture was made., A square had been cut away by the continual use of the augur, and it was quite large enough to allow a<man to descend through it to the chamber below.