HUGE SILVER CUP STOLEN.
TAKEN FROM SHOP WINDOW, MIDNIGHT MOTOR RAID. Thieves in a. motor'car, early one morning' Dt the end of May, stole the Essex Semen Football Challenge Cup, which is reputed, to be the moat handsome trophy in England; It etands 3ft high, and weighs 218 cm; Ot solid silver and is valued at £ 150, although its intrinsic value is stated to be shout) £25. It was on view in ft jeweller s window* Mr A. Bott, chairman of the Ilford .Football Club and manager of the Ajax Company, related how the enp was stolen. “I was going to bed at 12.30 a.m.. when there was a crash of glass. Going downstairs I heard two more nashos. While my wife went to the telcohone I rushed outside the house, and was* just in time to ace a can disappearing towards London. It -turned off to the left at a great naoe, as though going to Iford Broadway.” The thieves were in such, a hnyyr that they left the hd belund-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19239, 1 August 1924, Page 5
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172HUGE SILVER CUP STOLEN. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19239, 1 August 1924, Page 5
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