PARIS CRIME WAVE
ROBBERY UNDER ARMS. London, Jan. 9. A Paris message says that the “stand-and-deliver” type of robbery is so fashionable that the papers are publishing cartoons representing jewellers showing their wares, and as a precaution holding a revolver at the prospective customer’s head. The latest robbery was hi the suburbs of Aubervillers. A youth was inspecting a tray of rings, and was most careful until assured that the assistant was alone. He then drew a bar of copper from his pocket and struck the assistant’s bent head. The assistant grappled with his assailant in the pluckiest manner, but the latter, after a hard fight, escaped on a tramcar. He was then pursued by agile street urchins, who were most helpful to the police cyclists. The latter unearthed the culprit in a wooden hut inhabited by a girl, under whose bed he was hiding.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1921, Page 5
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145PARIS CRIME WAVE Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1921, Page 5
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