THEFT OF GEMS.
JEWELLER ROBBED IN STREET. NEW YORK, Jan. 12. Another daring daylight robbery has been successfully carried out m a crowded New York street. During the busiest part of the afternoon a jeweller was taking uncut diamonds worth £20,000 to a bank for deposit in the safety vault. In Fifth Avenue he was attacked by three men, who seized tho gems and rushed away in a motor car. Motorist and police who saw the theft joined in a wild chase which lasted an hour.
But tho robbers escaped with their booty.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1926, Page 4
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