DARING ROBBERY
MOTOR BANDITS IN LONDON. CHASED THhOUCH STREETS. (Reuter). (Received 11.50 a.m.) London, May 7. West End crowds to-day were astonished by the thrilling pursuit; of motor bandits. Two men' dismounted from a motor car in new Bond Street at ten o'clock in the morning and smashed the window of Harhan's jeweller's shop with a hammer. They snatched a diamond necklace valued at £BOOO, re-entered the car 'and drove towards Piccadilly. A policeman was a witness of the audacious theft, and jumping into a taxi he pursued the thieves, other police and pedestrians joining in the chase. The robbers abandoned the car during a traffic block in Gower Street and escaped to a tube railway station.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 60, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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117DARING ROBBERY Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 60, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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