DURING ROBBERY.
CABLE NEWS
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—C mrright.)
FROM A RAILWAY STATION. FOUR THOUSAND POUNDS WORTH OF JEWELLLIiY.
(Received Juiu" * Ji, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, -Ju.it: «.}. Freeman and Company, jewel merchants, deposited a heavily-ironed box in the cloak-room of the King's Cross . Station. It contained jewels valued at £4OOO, and the intention was' to' send it by train next morning. .During the evening a supposed district rnessynger asked that the box be removed to another cloakroom and secured a rpcwi ticket. A cab drove up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and the man presented the second ticket. Porters lifted the box oii to the cab. which thon departed. When the Freeman Company presented their ticket the theft was discovered.
Five hundred pounds reward has been offered!
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 June 1913, Page 5
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128DURING ROBBERY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 June 1913, Page 5
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