HARROD’S ROBBERY.
ESTIMATE OF LOSS,
THROUGH SEVEN IRON DOORS.
LONDON, Do. 31. Harrod’s estimate their loss at £IO,OOO. Four burglars participated. They had to break through seven iron fireproof doors to reach the booty. While awaiting the arrival of an accomplice with' a taxi-cab they rested on a settee and ate a stolen breakfast of fruit and wine.
They removed ten bales of merchandise covering a disused door through which they escaped. Altogether they traversed eleven departments without attracting the firemen, watchmen, telephonists, timekeepers or electricians working in the building.—A. and N.Z. cable.
Practically the whole of Harrod’s stock of jewellery was cleared out by leisurely thieves who are believed to have secreted themselvs in th building at night.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 January 1927, Page 7
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119HARROD’S ROBBERY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 January 1927, Page 7
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