TELEPHONE CALL .BEFORE ROBBERY
THIEVES’ RUSE AT HAMPSTEAD. Whoa a maid employed by Mr Bernard Simmouds was alone in her employer’s house at Green Cross Gardens, West Hampstead, there came a ring at the telephone. The maid answered, and a voice announced that Mrs Simmonds had met with an accident and was in St. George’s Hospital, Hyde Park Corner. As the speaker gave tho mi mo of the family doctor the girl immediately obeyed the _ instructions given and loft for the hospital. When slio got there she found that nothing was known of Mrs Simmonds or of her accident, but on returning to the house she found that jewellery worth £SOO had disappeared. The stolen property included a pearl necklace of ninety graduated pearls, rings, and brooches.
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Evening Star, Issue 19078, 22 October 1925, Page 1
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127TELEPHONE CALL .BEFORE ROBBERY Evening Star, Issue 19078, 22 October 1925, Page 1
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