JEWEL ROBBERIES

Evening Star, Issue 20972, 10 December 1931, Page 9

JEWEL ROBBERIES

BOGUS BUTLER AND COOK A jewel expert and a woman, posing as man and wife, who obtained situations as butler and cook by bogus references, confessed at Winchester recently to fourteen robberies of valuables worth £4,000. The principal hauls., wore: £l5O at Tunbridge Wells, £250 at Southend, £l5O at Redhill, £IOO at Brondesbury, £3OO at Brighton, £4OO at Leeds, £2OO at Chelsea, £650 at Chelsea again, £4OO at Egham, and £4O at Hendon. Their story was told at court, when the man was sent to five year's’ penal servitude and the woman to four years. Mordecai Emanuel Valencia is a Jewish diamond polisher from Hackney. His accomplice, Mary Milton, was described as belonging to Thurslcy, Surrey. Their forged references and respectable bearing procured them positions in the homes of well-to-do people. The bogus butler, as a diamond polisher, was able to mark down the most profitable valuables in the house for robbery. The pair waited until they wore left alone. Then they decamped with the gems. They robbed two Chelsea houses in a month last winter. But in the end the suave butler and the accomplished cook chose houses at Christchurch and Lymington, in the rural peace of Hampshire, for their work. And this time the police were cleverer.