DARING GOLD ROBBERY
THIEVES’ £15,000 HAUL LONDON STREET RAID (Received Nov. 1,2 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 31. While a delivery van in chargo of a youth was standing in Gransimi 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 eii route to smelters. The youth, in a gallant effort to prevent its removal, jumped on the running board of the thieves’ car, but was beaten off, and the car disappeared in back streets at a great pace. The railway company states that the consignment was insured for only £SO. and, consequently, a. police escort was deemed to be, unnecessary.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18234, 1 November 1933, Page 8
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114DARING GOLD ROBBERY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18234, 1 November 1933, Page 8
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