SMASH-AND-GRAB RAID
PAWNBROKER'S SURPRISE
TRAY OF RINGS STOLEN
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, September 1,
An audacious smash-and-grab raid was carried out, between 2.30 and 3.30 o'clock this morning in the shop of Mr. diaries Wiso, pawnbroker. A constablo who passed the shop at 2.30 a.m. saw everything intact, but shortly afterwards one or two men must have levered aside tho heavy iron grille and smashed tho thick plate-glass window with a lump of concrete -and reached a tray of diamond rings valued at between £200 and £250. They were unable to reach other trays.
■ The pawnbroker was sleeping in a room immediately above tho shop, but hoard nothing until ho answered prolonged ringing of the- telephone and heard from, a .detective.-'-what had happened.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 11
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