JEWELLER ROBBED
A SENSATIONAL STORY. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Recd. May 7, 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 6. Detectives are investigating a sensational hold-up of a city- jeweller, who while nearing hbme to-night, was bound, gagged, and carried to a local park near his home at Woolahia, where his keys were extracted from his pocket, the bandits returning to his King Street shop in a car, and carrying off £5OOO worth of jewels. LATER. The victim was Solomon Cohen, who told the detectives that he was going home, when in alighting from his car, something hit him on the head, which dazed him. He was bound, gagged and placed into a car. The keys of his shop and safe were taken from his pocket, and handed to a gang of men who drew alongside in another car. The latter sped away to tho city, and raided his shop and stole diamonds and jewels valued at from £3OOO to £4OOO. They returned with the keys and Cohen was then bundled out of the other car, into Central Park.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1931, Page 7
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