THEFT OF JEWELS.
A CLEVER .JOB.
By Cable—Press Association—Copyright,
London, June 3.
Freeman and Co., jewel merchants, deposited a heavily ironed box, valued at £4OOO, in a cloak-rdom at King's Cross station, intending to place it on a train iu the morning. During the evening, it is supposed, a messenger asked for the box to be removed to another cloakroom, and secured a second ticket for it. At five o'clock in the morning a cab drove up and a man presented the second ticket. Porters lifted the box into the cab. When Freeman presented his ticket the theft was discovered. Five hundred pounds reward has been offered.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 4, 5 June 1913, Page 5
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107THEFT OF JEWELS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 4, 5 June 1913, Page 5
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