AUDACIOUS ROBBERS
POSE AS ITALIAN POLICE
■ ARREST JEWELLER AND TAKE ' ; STOCK
BOME, 6th Maxell,
One o£ the most audacious robberies in. tho annals of Italy was carried out' in Borne. Two men dressed as carabinieri officers not only requisitioned the entire stock of a jeweller's shop in, the centre of the city, but arrested the proprietor on a faked-up charge of receiving stolen goods. They took him to the central police station and gave him into custody, and then quietly decamped with jewellery worth £20,000. This they had previously placed in boxes and sealed in the presence of the. distracted jeweller, who protested his innocence so vigorously to the police that the authorities finally scrutinised the arrest papers again. The\whole thing was then found to be bogus. The detective forco in Borne was buzzing with activity all day, and . effected one arrest; ■ '
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 57, 8 March 1930, Page 9
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142AUDACIOUS ROBBERS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 57, 8 March 1930, Page 9
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