AUDACIOUS ROBBERY.
EXCITING CHASE IN WEST END. A LONDON SENSATION. , (Beuter's Teleeram.j (Received May 8, 1 p.m.) LONDON, /May 7. West End crowds to-day were astbnv g ished by a thrilling, pursuit of motor- | bandits. , '-,'■: Two men dismounted from a motor car | in New Bond street at 10 o'clock in =the, morning, smashed the window of HaT v ham's, jeweller's shop with a hammer, snatched a diamond necklace valued at £& eight thousand ,pounds, re-imtere&Jthfi., | car, and drove towards Piccadilly. § A policeman was a witness of the M audacious theft, and jumping' ifitd ; a ;;. taxi he pursued the thieves, other police and pedestrians, joining in the phase. • »,. The robbers abandoned their-car' during a traffic! block in Govern street and. escaped to a tube station. .. ; 1
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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124AUDACIOUS ROBBERY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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