“SMASH & GRAB” RAID
DIAMOND RINGS STOLEN (P.A,) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 7. With a constable in close pursuit, two youths who carried out a daring “smash and grab” raid on a jeweller s shop at about 10.30 o'clock last evening owed their escape to a stratagem that must have been planned in While one kept watch, the other stuck a sheet of paper smeared with treacle on the window of Petersen s jewellery shop and smashed the glass. This glass was, however, of unusual thickness, about jjin., and the crash of its breaking was heard by a constable on beat. As he rushed along, the thieves scooped up from the shelves in the window a number of diamond rings and.lied. The constable was close behind them, but they had shrewdly laid a bicyole down and he fell sprawling over it. By the time he picked himself up the thieves had got out into. High street, where they mingled with the crowd coming out of a nearby picture theatre. Until he had taken stock. Mr. Petersen said that he would be, unable to say what his loss was, though it would be heavy as a number of valuable diamond rings ' were snatched.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21504, 8 September 1944, Page 4
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