JEWEL RAID.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 833, 5 August 1933, Page 22 (Supplement)

JEWEL RAID.

THEFT FROM SCOTTISH EXPRESS.

International jewel thieves are suspected of being responsible for the theft of jewels valued at between £IOOO and £2OOO from a first-class sleeping car of a Scottish express at King's Cross station. The robbfery was discovered only ten minutes after the jewel case had been deposited in the berth by Mrs. Pitts, the French wife of a Briton, who Was on her way to her home at Kyle House, Kyleakin, in the Isle of Skye.

When she arrived at Kyleakin, she told a reporter:—“When I went to King’s

Cross station I put my dressing case, which was locked, in the sleeping car, and then I went along to the restaurant car to book a table for a meal. 1 was absent from my carriage only a few minutes, but when I returned my case had gone.” Robberies of this kind from railway trains, though rare, have caused much concern to Scotland Yard, who fear that expert international thieves are at work. Precautions which have been taken to guard the delegates to the World Economic Conference and other visiting foreigners are being strengthened as a result of the theft.