VARIED THEORIES ON LONDON GOLD ROBBERY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27466, 28 September 1954, Page 13

VARIED THEORIES ON LONDON GOLD ROBBERY

P-m > LONDON, Sept. 27. Where’s that gold?” asks the "Sunday Pictorial," summing up the theories—all different—which London’s Sunday newspapers give about the disappearance of £40,500 worth of gold bullion, stolen in London last Tuesday. The various reports were as follows:

Sunday Express”: A Birmingham jeweller agreed to buy the gold six months before it was stolen. It was taken to him by car. He paid £30,000 for it in notes.

“News of the World”: The “boss” could have been one of three notorious criminals. Two have already been questioned. Scotland Yard is up against a ruthless gang almost international in its connexions. “Sunday Dispatch”: The gold is in

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