£6000 JEWEL RAID

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 13

£6OOO JEWEL RAID

WOMAN ALARMS THIEF PEARL NECKLACE LOST LONDON, July 31. Jewellery valued at £6OOO was stolen from the house of Air. Albert Holt, a well-known City man, in Fitzjohu's avenue, Hampstead, in the early hours of yesterday morning. One of the stolen articles, a necklace of 63 pearls, was valued at £SOOO It was composed of specially graduated pearls with an emerald and diamond clasp. Air. Holt's wife, who is over 60, was awakened by a noise in her bedroom. Suspecting that someone was there, she screamed and switched on the light. Then she saw a man in a soft hat and lounge suit standing at the dressing table with his back to her. The man pulled his hat hard over bis eyes and ran from the room with Lowed head. Airs. Holt jumped out of bed shouting. and then ran to the bedroom of her son. Air. Reggie Holt, The thief ran down the stairs, crossed the billiards room, and escaped. The thief had first ransacked a spare bedroom, then Mrs. Holt's boudoir, am 1 afterwards went into her bedroom. Alessrs. Tyler and Comoany. the n 5 scssors, offer a reward of £6CO for new leading to the recovery of the stole)jewellery.