DARING JEWEL ROBBERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20902, 18 June 1931, Page 4

DARING JEWEL ROBBERY.

BRICK THROUGH WINDOW

SENSATION IN BRISBANE

before tho eyes of hundreds of passersby in a Brisbane street one. night recently, a desperate robber hurled a brick muffed with a handkerchief through one of the windows of a jewellery shofj, grabbed two trays containing moro than £4OO worth of diamond rings and brooches aud mado a clean get-away.

A man was seen standing on tho footpath near tlio main enlraneo to tlio shop shortly before seven o'clock. Under his arm was a brown paper parcel. Pedestrian traffic at (he time was heavy. When a few minutes later it thinned out slightly the man was seen by two persons to walk toward tlio vestibule of the shop. Within a flash one of the windows was shattered by a brick wrapped in a handkerchief. Tlio hole made was almost, a foot in diameter, arid tlio man had little trouble in extracting one of the trays, but the other camo through the jagged opening only with tlio greatest difficulty. In no way perturbed by the presence of onlookers, who were for tlio moment dumbfounded, tlio thief stuffed the two trays under his coat and walked hurriedly away, lio had gono only a 'few yards when he suddenly broke into a smart run. Immediately several persons hurried after him, but ho was not secured. The motorman and conductor of a tramcar stated that tlio man had been noticed to board a tram and to tho surprise of both had walked through tho car and alighted at -tho front. Ho was then lost to eight.