DARING JEWEL BANDITS.
HAUL OF ABOUT £IO,OOO
BRUTAL ATTACK ON WOMAN
An unusually brutal attack was carried out by bandits in. the early hours of March 8 in a fashionable “West Side” apartment in New York. Three masked men, after following a couple of late revellers, a man and a woman, home from a Broadway cabaret, forced an entrance to their apartment by chopping flown their door, and escaped with jewellery valued at oO.HOOdoI (about £10,000).
As soon as bile thieves got inside the premises, they hound and gagged the man with strips torn from the bodlinen, and afterwards attacked the woman, tearing the rings from her lingers ami the necklaces from her throat and then they heat- her on the. head with the butt of a revolver to force her to reveal where the rest- of liejewellery was concealed. When the men had secured their booty, they 'departed unmolested. It is believed that they are all mem. bers of the same gang that has already perpetrated several similar outrages, in which the victims have always been frequenters of Broadway night clubs wearing spectacular jewels, which doubtless aroused the cupidity o! the thieves.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 May 1925, Page 9
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193DARING JEWEL BANDITS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 May 1925, Page 9
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