POLICE TRIUMPH
HUNT FOR STOLEN JEWELS. TIRELESS WORK SUCCEEDS. Some months ago Mrs Harry Sacher, of Addison Road. West London, was robbed of £10.500 worth of jewellery at a Geneva hotel. She never expected to see it again. The other day Mrs Sacher received a telephone call from Scotland Yard. It told her that all the jewels—except one or two trinkets —had been recovered and would be returned to her. A £5.000 ruby and diamond ring and a £2,G00 bracelet had been pawned in Paris. Articles including a ruby and diamond bracelet and a diamond and onyx bracelet, had been pledged in London.
Just three paragraphs—but they sum up the tireless work of the detectives of three countries. It was last August that Mrs Sacher, accompanied by her husband, went to Geneva to attend a conference of the Women's International Zionist Association.
She stayed at a fashionable hotel and it was there that her jewels vanished. An international gang was suspected. At once the Swiss police informed Scotland Yard and the Surete. The underworlds of Paris and London were combed. Three months later a man who had been released from prison in Berne just before the robbery was arrested in France. The trail became warmer.
Assthe police in London and Paris went from pawnshop to pawnshop one after another of the jewels was found —a pair of diamond and platinum clips a pair of ruby and diamond clips, a gold cigarette case. a powder-box. Then Scotland Yard found the vital missing link in the chain of jewels. Nothing remained to be traced except one or two odd trinkets and the case in which the jewels had been contained. These may have been throwfi away or destroyed as too dangerous to keep because of identification. So Scotland Yard telephoned Mrs Sacher and said: “We’ve recovered everything of importance.” Mrs Sacher could hardly believe the good news. “I never expected that I should see my jewels again.” she told an interviewer.
“Some of them were of great sentimental value. The police have been amazingly clever in their work.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1940, Page 7
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