DARING CRIMES

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21124, 27 March 1934, Page 7

DARING CRIMES

j TWO .IKYVKI. ROIMKUIKS AT I Win.I.INCTON r«is> is-u'iciii a>s ir.i.temu. 1 WELLINGTON. March 26. Two dariug robberies in which jewellery valued, in the first instance, at £SO and, in the other, at between £IOO and £l5O was stolen occurred m the city within a few hours on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. The first took place at Clark and Morris's, jewellers. Cuba street, when the intruder sained admission to the shop in broad daylight by smashing the .class panel of a side-door without apparently attracting the attention of passers-by. The other robbery, carried out in tiie busiest part of Willis street shortly after 0.30 a.m.. while inanv people were still about in the street, held all the elements of the audacious "smash and grab" variety.

A m;in was observed bv a number ol bystanders to deal two heavy blows at a plato-gkt'-s window of the premises <>f Walter Smart, a pawnbroker. mini: an instrument believed to have been a piece of pipim; ] [,. then sen-od two trays coniainim: diamond ruins. ;n U j clashed up tnr- -tivct A nigh! porter at the Di.l e -l Fainburgh Hotel, which is a lev.- doorlarlher mi the sire. ', com touted the robber with ~ broom, and called on him to stop. Tim porter <avs the robber drew out a revolve;, and"called" .ou full ot i,.ad.' Tim p,,,..,. r stepped back, and the man bolted past hint I eople who had been attracted bv the sound of smashing ela- and shouting joined the porter in pur-mm-the man, who ran up a side strce'"" disappearing m tlie durkitc^-