FOILED BURGLARS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1913, Page 7

FOILED BURGLARS

THE ATTEMPTED JEWEL ROBBERY ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS j HALF A TON OF IMPLEMENTS. By Telegraph.— PreM Association.— Copyright, LONDON, 21st January. Further particulars of the activities of the gang of burglars who spent the week-end in an unsuccessful attempt- to force a safe containing £80,000 worth of pearls in the office of Mr. Rubin, a jewel merchant in Holbortt, who owns pearl fisheries in. West Australia, show that four burglars arrived with a van alter 6 o'clock on Saturday, and brought with them half a ton of implement*. They entered the premises through unoccupied offices, and erected a tent of American cloth around the e&fe to pre» vent the light showing. , The burglars worked with blow-pipes on the safe for at least twelve hours, and only made a hole fottr by two inches. They were, however, within three inches of a tray containing jewels worth £30,000 when they hastily decamped. The thieves would have required to have drilled a second hole to have secured the other £50,000. They left pepper, with which to blind intruders, four pairs of silent boots, indiarubber gloves, and acid drops, to be used fthen their mouths were parched with the blow-pipes.