£6200 HAUL.
THIEVES IN LONDON. JEWELLERY AND FURS. SHOP-BREAKERS BUST. LOXDON, October 6. London's smash-and-grab gangs and shop breakers have been so busy that rewards totalling £620 are being offered by assessors for tile recovery of jewellery, furs, camerr>. watches and fountain pens, valued at £(>2OO, stolen in all parts of the metropolis in a week. Thieves who stole £3000 worth of fur capes, coats arul skins from Maison Gaston, in George Street, Marylebone. removed bricks from the wall of an adjoining house, which is only partly occupied. A pearl necklace and diamond and emerald rings worth £2500 were stolen from a flat in Cambridge Court, Bayswater. A crocodile suit case taken from an unattended car in Berkeley Square, W., yielded £300 worth of jewellery, and £400 worth of fountain pens, cameras and watches disappeared from a shop in South Road, Southall. The jeweller's shop of Messrs. Gibson, High Road, Ilford, was broken into. Rings, watches and bracelets to the value of £500 were stolen.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 253, 26 October 1938, Page 23
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165£6200 HAUL. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 253, 26 October 1938, Page 23
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