DARING ROBBERY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9577, 25 August 1909, Page 5

DARING ROBBERY.

ACCUSED REMANDED.

Received August 24, 11.35 p.m. LONDON, Augu3t 24,

John Taylor (painter), William Russ-ll (taibr), George Taylor (no occupation), Charles Gurron (billiard s loon proprietor), and Charles Knight (furniture porter), were remanded at the Mansion House on a charge of robbery from Messrs Mappin and Webb's establishment.

The successful issue of what was apparently a carefully planned scaeme to rob the Cheapside warehouse of Messrs Mappin and Webb, jewellers and leather goods merchants, was only frustrated by the plucky action of a nightwatchman on the premises. Ten smartly-dressed men. using a duplicate key, entered the warehouse from the street on Sunday afternoon, and, catching the nitzhtwatchman unawares, attacked him with a jemmy, inflicting serious wounds on the man's head. It had been intended to place the watchman liors de combat so that he would not be able to give an alarm; but his untxpected resistance caused some commotion, and five of the intruders, made their escape. The watchman then crawled to the entrance, and shouted for the police. Several constables answered the call, and arrived just as the other five burglars were emerging from the warehouse carrying jewellery and plate worth several thousand pounds. All five of the men were arrested.