SCIENCE TO GUARD JEWELS
FOILING SMASH AND GRAB RAIDS.
IMPRESSIVE DEMONSTRATION.
By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. London, June 8.
An impressive demonstration of how science .can . defeat “smash and grab shop raiders was given at a conference of the National Association of Goldsmiths at Southend.. A delegate hurled a heavy iron motorjack through the plate glass window of a dummy shop front. Immediately a siren screeched so that it could be heard half a mile away, a gas bomb exploded, a smoke bomb burst and a steel blind snapped across the window operated by an invisible ray. Thus the gems were saved from the clutching hand of the bandit.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1932, Page 7
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