RAIDS ON JEWELLERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20331, 12 August 1929, Page 7

RAIDS ON JEWELLERS.

RINGS STREWN ON PATH.

PURSUIT AT RAILWAY STATION.

Four men worn detained by the police at Thctford, Norfolk, recently, following ranis on jewellers shops. It was alleged that several men drove up in a motor-car to n jeweller's shop in North Walshani. They hrolce a window, and then, it was stated, seized rings ami watches to the value of £2OO. In their hurry to get away they left some of the rings strewn on the pavement. It was stated that previously they had raided another shop in the town and taken away a portable wireless set. They next mado off to Aylshani, about ten miles away, where they forced the door of another's jeweller's shop and took about £IOO worth of jewellery. The county police found traces of where a car seemed to have been backed into, a by-road, and in a field nearby empty ring-cases, belonging to the North Walshani jeweller were discovered. Information was then received that four men dro\o into tiiio town with their baggngo and inquired as to the next i train for London. In the meantime the local police arrived and detained three of tho men.

A fourth man, while waiting on tho platform, caught sight of the police and ran across the lino in an attempt to scale a fence. Ho lost a-shoe and a puisuer stopped him and handed him over to tho polico.