MOTOR BANDITS
I THRILLING PURSUIT IN LOXj DON. ! „ "LONDON.May 77 j V est End crowds to-day were as- ' tonished by a thrilling pursuit of j motor bandits. | Two men dismounted from a motor | car in Now Bond street at 10 o'clock j in the morning, smashed the window : of Harham’s jeweller’s shop with a hammer, snatched a diamond necklace valued at eight thousand pounds, re-entered the car and drove towards Piccadilly.
A policeman was a witness of the audacious theft,- and jumping into a taxi, he pursued the thieves, other police and pedestrians joining in the chase.
The robbers abandoned their ear during a traffic block in Govern street and escaped to tube —Reuter.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9800, 9 May 1924, Page 4
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