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DARING JEWEL ROBBERY * NOT A FINGERPRINT LEFT. J"reM Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 22. Miss Joan Pearson, who was living with her - grandmother, Viscountess Cowdray, of ,16. Carlton House terrace, was robbed of £B,OOO worth of jewels by a man who made a daring raid while the family were at dinner. Though there were twenty servants in the house none .saw the robber, who crept into an unoccupied house nearby, broke the skylight, crossed roofs, and jumped to the fire escape of No. ib, and thus reached a bedroom window or Lady Cowdray’s house. When ho had ransacked Miss Pearson’s bedroom the robber climbed back by the fire escape. There, is no clue, not even a fingerprint being left. ~ ,
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Evening Star, Issue 20958, 24 November 1931, Page 11
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