BOX OF GOLD STOLEN
THIEVES IN MOTOR CAR LONDON, October 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 £15,000. The gold was a consignment en route to the smelters. The youth, in a gallant effort to prevent the removal of the box, jumped on to the running board of the thieves’ car, but was beaten off, and the car disappeared in the back streets at a great pace. The railway company states that the consignment was insured for only £SO; consequently a 'police escort was deemed unnecessary.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22100, 2 November 1933, Page 9
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