JEWELS STOLEN.
RUSE IN LONDON. LONDON, Dec. 21. Booking a room at a West End hotel, three fashionably dressed, wellspoken men telephoned Bond Street jewellers asking them to send a representative with a selection of diamond and platinum rings, giving the name of a well-known Continental buyer. The representative arrived with ten and was displaying them when he was suddenly attacked and beaten unconscious, whereupon the men. pocketing nine rings valued at £16,000, strolled quietly out of the hotel into a waiting car. The representative was discovered an hour later with serious head injuries but managed to retain one of the rincs A reward of £ISOO is offered for information leading to the apprehension' of the thieves.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 21, 22 December 1937, Page 9
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117JEWELS STOLEN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 21, 22 December 1937, Page 9
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