JEWELLER ROBBED
KEYS TAKEN FROM POCKET
SHOP RIFLED IN SYDNEY
(Received 7th May, 8 a.m.)
SYDNEY, 6th May
Detectives arc now investigating tho sensational-hold-up of a. city jeweller who, while' n'earing his home to-night, was bound, gagged, and carried to a local park near his home at Woollahra, where his keys were extracted from his pocket. Tho bandits returned to his King street shop in a car and carried off a quantity of jewels.
The victim of tUo robbery was Solomon Cohen, who told the detectives that he was going home when a man alighted from a car and hit him on the head with something which dazed him. He was bound and gagged and placed in the car and the keys of his shop and safe taken from his pocket and handed to a gang of men who drew alongside in another car. This ca;r. sped away to the city, raided his shop, and stole a diamond and jewels valued at £3000 to £4000. The gang' returned with tho keys, and Cohen was then bundled out of the other car into Central Park.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 11
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184JEWELLER ROBBED Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 11
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