DANCERS ROBBED
A BALLROOM SENSATION VALUABLE BOOTY SECURED (By Telegraph-Press ABSOoiation-Ooim'ieht (flee. February C, 9'.!10 p.m.) Paris, February 5. A gay assemblage, including many women magnificently dressed, and wearing valuable jewels, thronged a ballroom lit liitljberlioz, where ten men in fcultIcs.s alliro arrived, ( 'at 1 o'clock in the morning. They received ti hearty welcome, and entered into the spirit of llio dance with great zest. Suddenly they drew, revolver?,'demand: injc. the other dancers' valuables. All exits in. the meantime were guarded'. The th'cves made several journeys to n waiting motor-car, in which they heapsd furs, jewellery, and purses. A girl, using tin back stair.;, called the. police, but"alHho gang escaped, with their booty except two. who were arrested. One woman who was robbed values her fur cloak at J2ooo.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 114, 7 February 1920, Page 7
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