JEWEL RAID

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 78, 28 June 1928, Page 3

JEWEL RAID

HEAVY SAFE REMOVED. SEQUEL TO JOY HIDE. LONDON, May 14. A safe weighing about 4cwt and containing jewellery to the value of £BOOO, was carried off by thieves from the house, of Mr Alexander Becker, a .silk merchant, of Goldera Green, London. The safe was found in a mews in Paddington. The jewellery had been removed. Three years ago Mr Becker's house was entered by burgWs and a juantijty of jewellery stolen- Since then he has had l a sale weighing lour or five hundredweight placed in his bedroom, and in this he kept his valuables. Mr and Mrs Becker went to the Hippodrome at Golders Green, leaving the house in the charge of ti Welsh maidservant. Later a, man wlio bad been friendly with the maid came to the house and told her that he had bought a motorcm- which he was trying, and suggested that she should accompany him on a trial run. The maid hesitated, but was told it was to be only a short run, and that «he would be back in a few minutes. She entered the car, in which were two other men whom she did not know. They drove to the Spaniards on Hampstead Health, where they j stayed for a short time, and then I canie home through Fiuchley. ; When the maid got to the house ishe found the front door ajar. She rushed upstairs and found the safe had gone. A neighbour said that she saw a taxi-cab drive up to the house about 9 p.m.

Later she saw two men coming out of the house with what looked like a largo parcel covered with a sack, which they placed in the taxi-cab.