THIEVES STEAL GOLD.
DARING ACT IN LONDON STREET
Received November 1, 1.50 p.m
LONDON, Oct. 31. While a delivery van in charge of a youth was standing in Gray’s Inn Road, four men emerged from a motor car, jostled the youngster and decamped with a box of gold valued at JO 15,000. Tiro gold was a consignment en route to a firm of smelters.
Tho youth, in a gallant effort to prevent its removal, jumped on the running board of the thieves’ car, but was beaten off and the car disappeared in tho back streets at a great pace.
The railway company interested state that the consignment was insured for only Si so; consequently a police escort was deemed unnecessary.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 288, 2 November 1933, Page 2
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