JEWEL ROBBERY
■ ♦ THE WEST END INCIDENT ANOTHER DARING RAID Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 4. The manager of the jewellery establishment was attacked from behind and his hat was pulled over his eyes as he was felled. The thieves had evidently studied his Monday morning practice of carrying jewellery from a bank in New Bond street. _ While the police were scouring Mayfair for these thieves three others swooped on another jeweller’s _ shop within 50yds, They smashed a window and grabbed a tray containing several thousand pounds worth of brooches. Passers-by tried to seize them, but they dashed away in a motor car. [ln the presence of crowds of shoppers in the West End, and almost under the nose of a policeman, the manager of a jewellery establishment, on returning from the bank, was attacked and robbed of a box of jewels worth nearly £20,000. The thief jumped into a car and escaped, the Flying Squad vainly pursuing him.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20993, 6 January 1932, Page 7
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158JEWEL ROBBERY Evening Star, Issue 20993, 6 January 1932, Page 7
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