BURGLARS’ WEEK-END TRIP.
AN ELABORATE AFFAIR.
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)
London, January 21
Rubin (the jeweller whose premises were burgled) owns pearl fisheries in Westralia. Four burglars arrived with a van after six o’clock on Saturday with half a ton of implements, and entered through unoccupied offices. They erected a tent of American cloth around the safe to. prevent the light showing, and blow-piped the safe. They worked for ,at least twelve hours, but only made a hole four by tut inches, wit fin, three inches of a tray containing £30,000 worth of pearls. They then hastily decamped. They would have required to drill a second hole to secure another £50,000. They left behind pepper, with which to blind intruders, four pairs of silent boots, india-rubber gloves, and acid drops used for their mouths when parched by the blow pipes.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 20, 22 January 1913, Page 3
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